Farm Life

New petition urges Government to save land for food production and nature protection

Scottish Land & Estates, the rural business organisation, has once again called for better ‘rural-proofing’ of policies in the wake of the debacle over a ban on wood-burning stoves in new homes

The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has dismissed a document setting out the Department for the Economy’s (DfE) plans for a Renewable Electricity Support Scheme

The Countryside Alliance has called for an overhaul of the way police prioritise rural crimes, including fly-tipping, agricultural machinery theft, hare poaching, and trespassing

Farmers have raised concerns as 3G networks are turned off and ahead of landlines being switched off in 2025, with phones instead using the internet to make calls

The code has been introduced at a time when tenants in the north of England are facing notices to quit by estates as a result of 'inheritance tax planning', as well as poor collaboration around the Landscape Recovery project

The retailer said price pressures were easing as it revealed pre-tax profits jumped to £2.3 billion

The 2023 Hen Harrier survey recorded 50 pairs of one of the UK’s rarest birds of prey

The 'River Wye Action Plan' will offer £35m in grant support for on-farm poultry manure combustors in the Wye Special Area of Conservation catchment to facilitate the export of poultry manure to where it is needed

NSA's chief executive Phil Stocker said he was seeing a 'breakdown in traditional sheep farming and grazing practices', adding with holdings becoming unviable and tenants often not having the opportunity to benefit from the schemes that land is being entered to