Diversification News

During challenging times for traditional farming and with sustainability and de-carbonising high on the agenda, more and more UK entrepreneurial landowners are looking at alternative ways to generate extra revenue streams. Rural diversification company Appetite Me explores the benefits of setting up a farm shop and provides a guide to getting started.

Any successful net zero strategy needs a reliable and trustworthy partner, and CarbonStore reckons it is ideally placed to help farmers navigate the flourishing market for carbon credits generated by planting home-grown trees in the UK.

Pitchup.com is backing a Yorkshire MP in his quest to boost the UK’s rural economy. Earlier this week, Robert Goodwill, MP for Scarborough and Whitby, called on Housing Secretary Michael Gove to reinstate the right for farmers and landowners to operate pop-up campsites for 56 days each year without applying for planning permission.

Suffolk’s Hog & Hen farm shop and café has provided a hub for the local community, whilst supporting the farming family’s arable and pig enterprise. Farmers Guide visited the shop to chat to the team about their farming methods and experience starting a new diversification through the pandemic – alongside the myriad challenges facing British farmers.

Do you have a patch of land you are currently eyeing-up, with the idea of setting up a glamping site, but don’t know how to begin? Here, we look at the initial stage of setting up a glamping business and the factors to consider, featuring useful advice and tips from the book “How To Set Up a Successful Glamping Business and Get Fully Booked”.

Farmers looking to find an alternative revenue stream from their land are being urged to consider setting up an eco-friendly holiday-let business by log cabin construction company, Timberspecs.

The demand for UK camping holidays has never been higher. With the promise of simpler holidays, surrounded by nature and all the benefits it brings to wellbeing, tens of thousands of families have ensured campsites up and down the country are booked for months in advance.

Pumpkins might still be seen as a quintessentially American crop, but the last 30 years have seen their slow, steady rise in the UK arable sector. This rise has led to a now booming industry providing diverse income for farms across the UK.

Ninety-five per cent of dog owners are looking to take their pet on holiday, research from leading rural insurer NFU Mutual has revealed, providing farms with hospitality diversifications a potential market boost.

Producing off-grid electricity from the wind can be an ideal power source in rural locations, to contribute to your power requirements or offset consumption from the grid. FuturEnergy explains how to get started.

Farmers considering planting the carbon negative crop Miscanthus can now benefit from a finance package to cover virtually all upfront costs for crop establishment, as well as new direct, long-term offtake agreements with end-users, with 10–15-year index-linked annual returns.

If you’re a farmer who produces more energy than you use, you’ll have the opportunity to sell your excess power back to the grid as a source of revenue. A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) could help you achieve best value by agreeing to sell to a third party, often at a fixed price and for a set period.