Sustainable Farming

In October I stood in a room full of 800 farmers and rural businesses at Farmers Guardian’s British Farming Awards and watched Sheena Horner step onto the stage and accept the Farming Hero honour.

Today marks the launch of the fourth, and potentially most important, year of our #ThisIsAgriculture campaign, at a moment in time when showcasing careers throughout the industry has never been more crucial.

NFU Cymru has accused Welsh Deputy Climate Change Minister Lee Waters of pushing a ‘simplistic’ message on meat consumption, after he urged people to eat less but local to tackle climate change.

NFU Cymru has accused Welsh Deputy Climate Change Minister Lee Waters of pushing a simplistic message on meat consumption, after he urged people to eat less but local to tackle climate change.

With the COP26 summit underway in Glasgow, First Milk bosses set out how the co-operative was looking to be part of the solution. Hannah Binns reports. 

A farmer from Somerset has been fined £11,000 for polluting a watercourse with slurry in three separate incidents for the second time in five years.

Farming must not be seen as the ’scapegoat’ for methane emissions, farming chiefs have warned.

As world leaders gathered in Glasgow this week for the COP26 climate summit, the irony of their collective carbon footprint was lost on no one.

It is easy for livestock farmers to become depressed about the apparent ascendancy of the vegan lobby but according to one expert there is a positive story to tell about meat.

Farm groups have urged Ministers not to put UK producers at a competitive disadvantage, after trade partner Australia refused to sign up to a global pledge to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent over the next nine years.