Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Natural capital is essential for farmers being able to adopt sustainable practices and do good for the environment, delegates were told at the Oxford Farming Conference Fringe event hosted by Trinity AgTech.

The National Sheep Association (NSA) continues to be frustrated in the lack of government commitment to UK agriculture and food security, along with the poor recognition that agriculture is the key to tackling climate change, and could, with the right incentives do far more.

A new Land Laboratory Teaching Centre, which will provide an integrated, state-of-art facility to train students in climate-smart, resilient agriculture and land management, is to be built at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) after the university won £5.8m of funding from The Office for Students (OfS).

Three promising postgraduate agricultural students from across the UK have been selected to receive a ‘Centenary Award’ bursary from The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust to further their education within the sector.

A new £4.8M project funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to increase biomass crops grown in the UK, will launch at the Low Carbon Agriculture Show at the NAEC, Stoneleigh, on 7th February 2023.

NFU Scotland has declared that “Farming and food production must be viewed as critical industries when the UK Government announces its review of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, expected before Christmas.”

The Cambridgeshire-based firm Techneat Engineering has confirmed it will be launching its new Multicast Applicator at LAMMA 2023, enabling farmers to spread all types and sizes of seeds with the same unit.

With increasing awareness of problem soils and their impact on arable farm productivity, results from a recent trial provide insights into how soil activators aimed at improving fertility could help turn things around.

Sencrop and Frontier Agriculture have joined forces to roll out a UK-wide network of connected weather stations, helping farmers and their agronomists to make better crop management decisions.

Coventry-based water company Severn Trent is inviting farmers in its priority catchment areas to attend a series of online workshops and learn about improving spray efficiencies, offering participants a free set of low drift spray nozzles upon completion.

The UK’s largest agricultural machinery and technology show returns on its original January dates of 10–11th January 2023 at the NEC Birmingham, with more features than ever before.

The Government has re-appointed Nicholas Saphir as chair of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) for one year, with effect from 1 April 2023.