Rural News

To help address concerns around creating a health and safety policy, the Farm Safety Foundation (also known as Yellow Wellies) have launched a new online ‘Build Your Own Health & Safety Policy’ tool to help farmers create a tailored policy that meets HSE requirements and standards set out by farm assurance schemes.

As part of A-Plan Insurance’s Rural Community blog they spoke to Shirley McNiven about her family farm based in Fyvie, Scotland.

Speaking from personal experience, farmers shared tried-and-tested strategies for reducing emissions at the Innovation for Agriculture and Royal Agricultural Society of England’s (RASE) ‘Farm of the Future: Net Zero in Practice’ event, where improved efficiency, production of renewable energy and carbon sequestration were identified as key factors in achieving net zero in agriculture.

Tickets have gone on sale for a brand new event for free range egg producers. BFREPA Live 23: The Free Range Egg Show will take place on the 15th November at the Telford International Centre.

Farmers can now apply for this year’s round of Severn Trent’s Environmental Protection Scheme (STEPS) match funding, offering up to £30,000 for farms in priority catchment areas to invest in improving water quality.

Despite a year-on-year increase in meat-free meals, dishes containing meat, fish and poultry (MFP) are still a firm favourite with diners and account for the majority of spend in the out-of-home market, AHDB research has shown.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has launched new guidance intended to provide food, beverage, and retail organisations with a framework for building a robust food safety culture to help prevent illness and death resulting from food contamination each year.

The Dorset Horn and Poll Dorset Sheep Association’s National Show has fast become a success and drawn breeders from across the country since its calendar debut – and this year will be no different.

To meet rapid growth in global demand, family-owned UK manufacturer Claydon Yield-o-Meter Ltd has recently expanded its factory at the Wickhambrook site in West Suffolk, with the completed building set to double production and create numerous additional jobs.

LEAF Education’s latest study of 2,500 young people, conducted in partnership with McDonald’s UK and Harper Adams’ School of Sustainable Food and Farming, demonstrated the agri-food industry is best placed to engage, motivate and inspire 12-19-year-olds about the sector and how to get involved in it.

Spanning approximately 1,379 acres (558 hectares) within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Cedar Farm offers the purchaser a unique opportunity to acquire a sizeable, predominantly light land farming unit, in a coveted location adjacent to the Suffolk Heritage Coast.

Becky Wilson from Farm Carbon Toolkit explained how understanding where emissions come from on a farm can support informed decision-making on reducing carbon footprint, which can lead to increased business resilience and profitability, at a farming conference hosted by accountancy firm Scrutton Bland in early 2023.