Farming Minister Mark Spencer outlines Government response to the Rock Review
There can be no doubt that culling badgers under licence from Defra has been a tremendous success for bovine TB control from a farmer’s perspective.
Natalie Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle is an Australian-British politician and journalist who served as Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016.
Having recently read through and advised on yet another Farm Business Tenancy (FBT), which, as sadly now seems to be the norm, has a short fixed term and reams of overly onerous and restrictive tenant obligations, along with an eye-watering rent, I thought it right to put pen to paper on the subject.
Nick Grayson, a mixed tenant farmer in Rotherham and vice chair of the Future ²ÝÁñÉçÇø of Yorkshire, a group supported by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.
The tenanted sector of agriculture brings together landowners and tenants to create and foster sustainable and profitable businesses with fair rental returns to landowners.
As January draws to a close, I can’t help feeling that it gets a bit of a bad rap. January is portrayed as the miserable month of midwinter.
As a new year begins, I look back over 2021 and cannot help but think of how much the agricultural industry had to overcome.
Every industry is experiencing a shortage of available talent. This has been seen in the dairy industry for the last few years, especially on dairy farms.
It is the season of school nativity plays – Covid-19 permitting – and I listen to the strains of Away In A Manger sung by some angelic voices and some rather discordant reedy voices.