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Was looking for reliable answers to how much carbon pasture sequesters vs trees as seems to be an awful lot of misinformation out there. No idea if this is accurate but thought it interesting, one could conclude that planting up 10% plus of Welsh livestock farms with trees provides no meaningful...

Hey. So I’ve just got a start up loan for a business to get into farming I’ve got a loan of £10,000 would that be enough to get started I know the cost of land and so on but I’m looking at contracting like horse haddock’s, land clearing/ grading, livestock services and so on I’ve had plenty of...

So to get our heads around how useful this support offered by Rishi yesterday, who plans to take advantage of the FETF capital grants this year ...

Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)...

I have an MF6290 serial no J327004, so the earlier type range change, by knocking the gear change lever to the right whilst in the neutral position (from K304014 the range change became a button integrated into the pommel of the gear lever). The gear change keeps jamming while the engine is...

I’ve recently had my haylage analysed by feeding company that I get ewe rolls off. They have also put me together a feeding plan of what I should be feeding before lambing. I know what I would normally feed pre lambing and it’s considerably more. Was also told that the haylage isn’t a great feed...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland There is over a £125,000 difference between the top-performing dairy farms and the bottom 50%, according to new data from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). AHDB revisited and updated data from 2017 and 2018 for beef and...

Dear Farmers Nine years ago, I gave my maiden speech in the House of Commons. I pledged that day to be a champion of the countryside and of my hard-working rural constituents. Nearly a decade later, I still stand by those words. It is farmers who feed us and proudly steward the land. You do it...

Wasted much of the morning looking for a suitable NVZ recording template (as we were promised one by Welsh Government) as I have been spooked by a neighbour having an NRW inspection which he said was the worst he'd ever undergone so can anyone recommend a suitable tool or do I just make my own...

Did I hear right!!!? Millions coming our way to improve our IT etc so that we have less reliance on foreign workers? and better outlets for food we can't sell? Apart from installing robots, I can't see, on the face of it, what impact this would have on the dairy industry. What about other sectors?

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine UK pea and bean growers are invited to become ‘pulse pioneers’ and be paid to carry out on-farm trials which will contribute to ground-breaking research. The Nitrogen Climate Smart (NCS) Project aims to facilitate the increase of pulse cropping from 5%...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland During emergency talks held yesterday (Monday, February 19), the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) called for minister for rural affairs, Lesley Griffiths, to rethink Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) proposals. The union said the rethink of the...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/20/defra-officials-buried-analysis-dire-financial-prospects-hill-farmers-brexit-faming-payments-scheme

Defra officials buried analysis showing dire financial prospects for hill farmers Exclusive: FOI request reveals fears many would sell up if they saw assessment of post-Brexit farming payments scheme Government officials have buried an analysis of the financial prospects for some of the most...

Red Tractor Member Mailing Dear Red Tractor Member Independent review finds Red Tractor Governance is sound and no breach of procedure London, 19 February 2024: The NFU have today published Campbell Tickell’s independent review of Red Tractor Governance. Red Tractor Chair, Christine...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland “World-class” UK beef, dairy and lamb produce is being showcased at Gulfood, a food and drink trade show in Dubai. This is according to Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) senior halal manager, Dr Awal Fuseini, who said the...

Watch video using link at bottom of this post. Right at the end, talking about CEO of Red Tractor, if the job came available, Minette says "who would want that job if it did come up". Not only that, but Minette, who's known for being a big supporter of RT, says she wouldn't want the job either...

Hi, As part of my final year dissertation at Harper Adams, I am looking into Stakeholders perception of farm assurance schemes within the UK. If you are a farm owner/manager I would really appreciate if you could spare 5 minutes to answer my survey! Thank you in advance! :)...

Had a chat with 3 guys surveying an anglia water repair job. Decent blokes , but hell the rubbish they have to deal with to do a simple job is ridiculous. Air valve pissing water out . An engineer Lifting manager Another manager of some sort. These 3 were assessing job. I said easy...

The https://www.bfu.org.uk/ pushed for AHDB to do this piece of work. Project has now gone out to tender. Not sure what I think to the wording. Anyway, here it is.... https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/393981ef-6d21-4595-b149-0ce70cb1528e