Rural News

Productive relationships between farmers and scientists are crucial to solving the urgent challenges facing agriculture such as food security and net zero, according to an international team of researchers which includes ADAS crop physiologists and inventors of the Yield Enhancement Network, Prof Roger Sylvester-Bradley & Dr Daniel Kindred.

Covid restrictions in Scotland mean the event cannot go ahead, organisers say.

Due to growing concern over the new Omicron variant, Dairy-Tech 2022 has been postponed to 7th April 2022.

As the UK marks its first tumultuous year outside of the EU, Farmers Guide reflects on the current situation – the outstanding threats, opportunities and what the future may hold for British farmers as a result.

Thousands of people turned out to support the tour, which aimed to bring the farming community together and raise money for Garden House Hospice Care in Letchworth.

The LAMMA Show has confirmed it will move its dates from 11-12th January to 4-5th May in response to the escalating Omicron situation.

Extra measures are being implemented for Dairy-Tech 2022 held on 2nd February to ensure it is Covid-secure.  

The AHDB board has said it is ‘no longer appropriate’ to continue providing annual seed corn funding now that Red Tractor is financially established and self-sustaining.

As the world battles the new Omicron variant, Agritechnica organisers have announced that the world-leading machinery exhibition will now not take place until 2023.

A coalition of leading food and farming businesses is warning that the UK faces a deepening food supply chain crisis unless the government takes urgent and meaningful action to fix the structural issues facing the industry.

Over £6,000 has been raised for Staffordshire Young Farmers Clubs and Midlands Air Ambulance.

A new practical guide to assessing soil carbon promises to answer farmers’ key questions at a time when many are looking to understand their soil health.