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In the wake of falling fly-tipping incidents over the past year, a rural insurance specialist is calling on farmers and landowners to double down on their efforts to keep environmental criminals at bay to maintain the positive trend.

His Majesty King Charles III is today (Thursday 9th March) paying a visit to the Animal Plant and Health Agency (APHA) in Weybridge to offer his congratulations to scientists and staff for their role in fighting the UK’s biggest avian flu outbreak to date.

Corteva Agriscience has donated more than $500,000 to support people in Turkey affected by the devastating earthquake.

GROW Your Own Potatoes kits have been delivered to more than 6,000 schools nationwide after the programme was saved from closure thanks to support from across the industry. Kids across the country will now get hands-on with farm-to-fork learning as they plant the potatoes this week. 

A recent social media survey of UK farmers has revealed some of the strangest and funniest things they have been asked by members of the public about what they do.

Some of the best farm retailers in the UK were crowned winners on Tuesday in an annual award ceremony hosted by celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

The evaluation, carried out through Reading University, found that 17% of milking heifers exit the herd before calving down for a second time.

A PhD student from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) who has made sustainable rope from British wool has been named as one of the top 50 Women in Innovation in the UK.

A recent Irish study argues women in the farm sector have played a key role in the growth of agrotiurism by being more open to farm diversification and going beyond the “productivist” type of thinking in agriculture.

In the run up to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget announcement on 15th March, rural finance specialists urged the government to maintain green incentives for farming and thaw frozen tax thresholds to ease the strain of cost-of-living price hikes.

Early bird tickets for Cereals 2023 are now on sale, with 50% of the proceeds going to the Multiple System Atrophy Trust, a cause close to the host farmer’s heart.

Following a long period of recession, the figures are finally looking up for British free range egg producers, according to ADAS costings for March 2023, presented at this year’s BFREPA Roadshows. Farmers Guide staff writer Henrietta Szathmary attended the meeting in Wales on 2nd March to report on the discussion.