Rural News

In uncertain times, Rural Asset Finance is seeing more and more farmers looking to diversify into green energy. While traditional banks which may balk at the idea of loaning money for new enterprises that have not been tried and tested, Rural Asset Finance explains an alternative funding option that is available to diversifying farmers.

Farmers intending to cover their maize fields with grass this winter can now claim £200 per hectare from South East Water.

With winter just around the corner, now is the time to ensure your premises are prepared for the pest problems that lie ahead. 1env Solutions offers some tips.

When fourth generation farmer Tim Hopkin was facing the loss of his family farm as it was no longer profitable, he decided to come up with a solution. The result was Land App – a free mapping platform that helps farmers plan for the future and get the revenue they deserve from their land.

Media reports that the government is set to change or scrap the ELM subsidy schemes, backpedalling on its environmental commitments, “are simply not right”, Defra insists.

Farmers Guide staff writer, Henrietta Szathmary, returned to Romania recently to visit her family farm, run by her father Laszlo. She discusses the effects of the Russian conflict, adding to existing challenges amid increasingly extreme weather.

More than 130,000 students will experience harvest time first-hand as the NFU education team takes them behind the scenes of the UK’s biggest harvest festival.

‘Diddly Squat: ‘Til the Cows Come Home’ is a collection of Clarkson’s latest Sunday Times columns, detailing the next instalment of his farming adventure.

Ahead of the October launch of the Lodi Gems Harmonix Rodent Paste, Lodi looks at best practices in rodent control on farm, and the new potential of its next generation active and mode of action.

After the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral yesterday afternoon (8th September), farming organisations expressed gratitude for her long-serving commitment to farming and rural life.

Teams from UK Dairy Day and the Holstein UK Group, along with any volunteers, will cycle 867 miles on spin bikes, to raise money for Sue Cope’s chosen charity, Brain Tumour Research.

Now in its 31st year, national crop establishment demonstration Tillage-Live is returning to Scotland in September.