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Hethersgill Vintage Club Ploughing Match, at Brisco Hall Farm, near Carlisle, Trevor Johnstone on his patch, 20 March 2016 LOUISE PORTER 50083625F006.JPG. LEADING rural insurer NFU Mutual has announced £2.75m of funding for local and national charities in 2021.The insurer will be donating £2m to local charities through its Agency Giving Fund and pledging £1m to the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust to support national organisations. Alongside this funding, NFU Mutual will also be supporting ‘...

Gifted agricultural students and future farming industry leaders invited to apply for bursary By Alasdair Fraser  |  Updated: 13:10, 27 January 2021 Get the Ross-shire Journal sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper Elin Havard benefitted from the bursary Outstanding agricultural students are being invited to apply for a national bursary award aimed at greatly easing the cost of studies. Offered through the insurance firm NFU Mutual’s char...

In the six months of restrictions since March 2020, Samaritans’ volunteers have provided emotional support more than 1.2 million times by phone, email or letter ONGOING CORONAVIRUS lockdown measures are taking their toll on the mental health of communities across the UK – according to research from NFU Mutual. The rural insurer conducted an online survey of 501 customers between November 20 and 30, and found that more people are feeling stressed (+7%), anxious (+3%) and lonely (+2%) tha...

WILDFIRE raged through the Galloway Forest Park GROWING BARLEY for whisky is a mainstay of Scottish arable farming – but under lockdown, maltsters and distillers had to put the brakes on production, casting doubt on what harvest market will be waiting for the crops that many growers had just finished establishing. It costs a lot of time and money to completely shutdown and restart a distillery, so many of Scotland’s were still open with a skeleton staff to keep them ticking over, with som...