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With harvest season here, the NFU is urging farmers and growers to keep safety in mind by ensuring machinery is properly maintained and operations are carried out safely. read more..
A new electronic tool has been launched for advisers and agronomists which demonstrates how the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) is economically viable compared to the regulatory alternative. read more..
The farming leaders of NFU Scotland and NFU England and Wales have met with the UK Government’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP in London today (Wednesday, 28 July) to discuss the central role that rural businesses continue to play in the nation’s economic recovery. read more..
In a move heralded as ‘common sense’ by the NFU, the EU Commission has put forward a proposal to replace around 50 directives with one core regulation covering the type approval of tractors, trailers and their appliances. read more..
The NFU has said it looks forward to working with the new interim chief executive for the Rural Payments Agency Richard Judge after his appointment was announced by Agriculture Minister Jim Paice today. read more..
Farmers on the preferred route for a high speed rail link between Birmingham and London may now be eligible to receive compensation under the Government’s Exceptional Hardship Scheme (EHS). read more..
The 10th World Association of Beet and Cane Growers’ (WABCG) conference is being hailed as good as any in its 30 year history. The event, hosted by the NFU in the UK for the first time, concluded at the end read more..
The NFU has said that the Secretary of State’s announcement that she will seek the agreement of the Welsh Assembly Government to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board sees the back of a contradictory and cumbersome regulatory framework. read more..
A review into the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) should, if its recommendations are acted on, signal the beginning of a major push to transform the agency from a below-standard public body to an effective and cost-efficient one, says the NFU read more..
The NFU has called on the European Commission to take farming forwards towards a more competitive, productive and market-orientated future when it draws up its Communication on the future of the Common Agriculture Policy this autumn. read more..
To reduce our dependence on land overseas we will need the public on side as well as politicians, NFU President Peter Kendall will tell growers at the Fruit Focus event being held today. read more..
Today’s review into the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) should, if its recommendations are acted on, signal the beginning of a major push to transform the agency from a below standard public body to an effective and cost efficient one, says read more..
The NFU supports the latest strategic plan for the unwinding of TSE restrictions across Europe via the publication of the Commission’s TSE Roadmap 2. The Roadmap follows on from a continual decline in BSE across Europe. read more..
Plans announced by the European Commission will give individual member states the immediate power to set coexistence rules on a regional or national level, without any scientific basis, in order to restrict or ban GM crop cultivation. read more..
Farmers and land managers are being encouraged to take part in the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) Trail at this year’s CLA Game Fair to find out how they can participate in the initiative. The Campaign partners have developed read more..
The NFU is warning milk buyers not to pay ‘too little too late’ as dairy farmers across the country struggle to maintain milk production following months of hot, dry weather. read more..
Farmers affected by the summer’s excessive heat are being urged to take advantage of the NFU’s fodder bank. read more..
NFU dairy board chairman Mansel Raymond has been elected vice-chairman of the European agricultural union’s milk and dairy products working group. read more..
On the day that MEPs adopted George Lyon’s report on the future of the CAP, the NFU said it believed the time was right to talk up the benefits of the CAP to society at large. read more..
The NFU and NFU Scotland have worked with HMRC to clarify the use of red diesel at agricultural shows. Farmers and growers will now be able to legitimately use red diesel in machines such as tractors and telehandlers for travelling read more..
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