Funding

The Budget has put succession planning in the spotlight, but how do you start the conversation?

The letter called on Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, to confirm £5 billion is still allocated to 'Project Gigabit'

Food Standards Agency says move will streamline novel food application process

Agricultural sustainability director at Lloyds Banking Group Ben Makowiecki said: "There are a lot of people trying to get to the same place in a similar way. Let us not compete against each other to get there"

Tenant Farmers Association said it had been given reassurances from a senior Defra official last week that a decision was imminent

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

Farmers' Union of Wales senior policy adviser Rebecca Voyle outlines what funding schemes are available now and over the next few months for farmers in Wales

Sean Fitzpatrick, of the Northern Ireland Agricultural Producers' Association, said: "How can anyone expect our sheep farmers to maintain this when their income, which needs to support not only a business but a home, is getting significantly cut?"

Chief executive of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) Christopher Price said: "In May, the previous Government promised £3m to support the creation of new and mobile abattoirs though the Farming Investment Fund. Since then we have heard nothing"

CLA senior land use policy adviser Cameron Hughes said the range of Capital Grants available were 'particularly worth investigating'