by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | All, Published Articles
Opinion: Labour’s vision for farming is ‘thin gruel’ When someone promises to “give me my future back”, my interest is naturally piqued. Thus when lesser-spotted shadow Defra minister, Steve Reed, recently announced a tantalising new deal for farmers, I...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | All, Published Articles
Opinion: Agriculture must be ‘farmer-friendly’ Most elements of society – government, industry, NGOs and consumers – are united by the wish to see “nature-friendly” and “climate-friendly” farming as a necessary means of reaching our environmental goals. Farmers Weekly...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | All, Published Articles
Embracing ‘Regenerative Farming’: A Path to Sustainable Agriculture Regenerative’ agriculture is seen by some as perhaps only the latest buzzword in a long line of farming systems: organic; conventional; conservation; sustainable intensification;...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | All, Published Articles
Farmers can’t pay for society’s ecological conscience Biodiversity continues to decline across the UK. Agriculture and climate change are the main drivers according to the report recently released by the State of Nature, compiled by more than 50 wildlife and...
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We should hang our heads in shame at our safety record As a farmer or farmworker, you are 21 times more likely to be killed at work than the average Briton. If you are over the age of 45, you occupy the age bracket in which 80% of on-farm deaths occur, and if over the...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | All, Published Articles
Tackling climate change can benefit the bottom line In 2019’s Achieving Net Zero report, NFU president Minette Batters states that the organisation “has set the ambitious goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the whole of agriculture in...