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By Community contributor OUTSIDE Newton Rigg College, Cumbria YFC chief officer Joanne Mills and Farmer Network managing director Adam Day BUSINESSES and charities that shared the site of Newton Rigg College in Cumbria are on the hunt for new homes after it was confirmed that the college will close this July. The fate of Newton Rigg, at Penrith, has been in the balance since York-based owners Askham Bryan College announced closure plans last year. With news that the campus and an associated farm were being put on the market from Tu...

TWO Cumbrian organisations are now faced with being made homeless when the Newton Rigg campus closes this summer.

Newton Rigg Campus CUMBRIA’S only agricultural college is to go on the market next week, along with its two farms. The owners of Newton Rigg confirmed that college staff had been informed on Thursday that Newton Rigg campus and Sewborwens Farm, in Penrith, and Low Beckside Farm, in Mungrisdale were being put up for sale through Savills Estate Agents from Tuesday, May 4 onwards. Remaining college staff, it is believed, were being given notice today, while the Farmer Network and the Cumbria Federation of Young Farmers, have been told they must leave by July 31. Bosses, York-based Askh...

A NEW date has been set for the inaugural Cumbria Farmer Awards. It had been planned to hold the much-anticipated event in the spring, but Covid-19 has led to the decision to move the event to a new date this autumn. Entries for the 12 categories will now be reopened until May 4. Alongside farming’s core sectors - dairy, beef, sheep and machinery - there is also a celebration of talented youngsters coming into the industry. The search to find the county’s farming unsung heroes is organised by Newsquest Cumbria in partnership with Carlisle-based business advisers and accountants ...

Read more about L T Foods partners with Humankind Group to develop commercial-scale biomass plant on Business Standard. HKG has proposed LT Foods to become its local partner for the first commercial-scale biomass facility. LT Foods would play a key role in the success of the project through its local presence, knowledge of rice farming and a vast farmer network