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Visit the UK’s leading indoor agricultural event, with eleven packed halls of the very latest in agricultural machinery and equipment. Now at the NEC, Birmingham this is free to attend and free to park.
The campaign is an initiative to shed positive light on the industry and highlight the benefits British farmers bring to not just food production, but also the British countryside and biodiversity.
Farmers at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair, Llanelwedd, met with Mr Johnson on Monday (November 25) as he launched his party’s Welsh manifesto for the general election.
A move to reduce the number of cattle grazing on National Parks through winter has been met with anger as farmers feel it is part of a wider destocking agenda by conservation groups.
The hope is to plant one sapling tree per member, with 60 Young Farmers’ Clubs (YFCs) across England and Wales being supplied the trees by The Woodland Trust.
The UK’s livestock industry would be a ‘casualty’ of Labour’s plan to introduce a net zero emissions target by 2030, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister Andrew RT Davies has said.
Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths appeared to retreat on the Government’s commitment to introducing closed periods for slurry spreading at NFU Cymru’s annual conference today (November 7).
Farm groups have criticised a former Defra chief scientist for saying people will have to cut down on eating red meat if the UK is to meet its 2050 net zero emissions target.
Calls for urgent financial support to help farmers meet net zero targets have been ramped up as the need for ‘mainstream’ nature-friendly farming is echoed by farmers and conservationists.
Powys councillor Elwyn Vaughan has called for both Welsh farming unions to become partners in the ‘Summit to Sea’ project after founder member Rewilding Britain pulled out.
Natural England needs an annual cash boost of £140m if it is to build proper relationships with farmers and carry out its duties to protect the environment, according to its chair Tony Juniper.