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Pictured: Dr. Julia Aglionby DEFRA has come under attack for leaving Cumbrias lowland commoners out of their newest scheme. Low input and unimproved grasslands - some of the countys most precious habitats for wildlife - are to be excluded from the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2022 under proposals announced by Defra last week. This is despite Defra’s commitment that all BPS applicants would be able to apply including those in existing Stewardship Schemes, says the Foundation for Common ...

How two growers are using regenerative farming to protect water >More in John Hawkins Pressure to reverse excessive nitrate leaching into both the Wessex Water borehole and wider Poole Harbour catchments has led Dorset farmer John Hawkins to radically reshape his farm in the past three years. The borehole supplies up to 8m litres of water a day, but can be out of action for three to six months of the year because of excessive nitrogen, e...

H&H Land & Estates, one of the North’s leading Chartered Surveyors, Agricultural Land Agents and Valuers, has this week welcomed Matthew Vickers as a Graduate Rural Surveyor.   Originally from a County Durham farming family in Weardale, Matthew now lives and helps farm with his father in the Lake District National Park, near Ullswater. He is an Old Barnardian (Barnard Castle School pupil), who went on to graduate this year from Harper Adams University after studying Rural Enterprise and...

SHARING OPTIONS: Farmers have been busy over the last year in carrying out remedial works to farm roadways to ensure any runoff is directed away from any watercourse, drain, etc, that feeds into a water feature. Given the level of discussions and queries arising, it is clear that works continue to bring farms in line with new rules which came into play on 1 January 2021 surrounding runoff from farm roadways, fencing of watercourses and location of water tr...

Payment redistribution moves CAP money from east to west 2021-06-11

EID tagging much earlier, even from birth offers a host of benefits at no real extra cost. Lambs can be quickly and easily identified when using EID Stick

Tim Sedgewick, Associate Director of H&H Land and Estates, highlights some of the recent changes in the farming industry.

Grower says UK farming much better off without subsidies 10 June 2021 | Pip Robson says farmers should view the reduction in subsidies as a real opportunity A Northumberland grower says he wants farming to stand on its own two feet as the industry could be much better off without subsidies. Pip Robson, who runs a mixed farm of 800 hectares, said farmers should view the reduction in direct payments as a real opportunity. The grower made the comments after he joined AHDBs Monitor Farm Network in...

Complaints submitted to the Office of the Ombudsman about the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine almost doubled last year compared to 2019.

163 complaints were received about the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) in 2020, according to the Office of the Ombudsman. Complaints