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Four new environmental stewardship options are being introduced for farmers after successful lobbying by the NFU. read more..
Remember to get your five a day the British way and help improve your health and the nation’s economy – this is the message from the NFU after a new report revealed Britons still aren’t eating enough fruit and vegetables. read more..
New waste regulations, set to start on April 6, will see farmers and growers saving more than £4m in potential costs thanks to successful NFU lobbying. The changes, agreed in September, means the government has agreed not to charge farmers for registering everyday waste exemptions. read more..
Farming and road haulage share many common goals – and face many common issues – according to NFU Deputy President Meurig Raymond speaking ahead of an address to the Agricon 2010 Road Haulage conference. read more..
DEFRA today confirmed in writing that compensation to growers for cuts in beet prices will not be based on 2007/08 marketing year supply contracts. read more..
The NFU has accused Chancellor Gordon Brown of shooting at the wrong target in singling out the Common Agricultural Policy for further reform. read more..
The NFU today welcomed the launch of Defra’s Biomass Capital Grant Scheme as a positive step in helping the development of the biomass market. The new five year scheme is designed to support the installation of biomass fuelled heat and read more..
A major initiative to tackle farming’s contribution to climate change is being launched by industry leaders at the Oxford Farming Conference. Forming a united stance against the serious threat that climate change poses to agricultural production, the NFU, AIC and read more..
The NFU expressed relief today at the RPA announcement that it has completed its review of FVP (fruit, vegetable and potato) authorisations claimed by growers as part of their SPS applications in May 2005. The RPA review has established that read more..
NFU President Peter Kendall will be championing the cause of commercial farmers after being invited to address the Oxford Farming Conference in the New Year. read more..
I suspect that when the Government’s farm income figures are published in a few weeks time they will confirm that 2006 turned out to be a much better year. Mind you, it needed to be, given the depths to which read more..
NFU Vice President Paul Temple will be travelling round the country using plant power after taking delivery of a new car from Ford which runs on biofuel. Mr Temple will be using the 150th Ford Focus Flexible Fuel Vehicle registered read more..
The NFU has repeated its call for the Government to take immediate steps to organise a cull of diseased badgers, after a second consecutive month in which the number of new outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis was higher than in the same month in 2005. read more..
Ted Turkey is celebrating a cracking success after this year’s website to promote buying British birds for Christmas clocked up more than 100,000 hits in just two months. read more..
The NFU has expressed extreme disappointment at the High Court’s judgment which upholds Waverley Borough Council’s enforcement notice for the removal of Spanish polytunnels at a Surrey Farm. Hall Hunter Partnership at Tuesley farm, Milford, had argued that in law read more..
The NFU, the British Poultry Council, the British Egg Industry Council, the National Pig Association, the Environment Agency and Assured Foods Standards issued a joint statement today on the work they are doing regarding the new Integrated Pollution Prevention and read more..
Dairy farmers are owed more than £270 million – this is the figure produced as a result of the NFU’s Dairy Invoicing Campaign. read more..
The NFU has given a cautious welcome to the Government’s plan to keep the Environmental Stewardship and Hill Farm Allowance read more..
NFU calls for continued support for upland farmers have been heard after Defra announced a three-year roll over of the Hill Farm Allowance scheme today. read more..
The NFU will be directly involved with new Defra plans to bring real deregulation benefits for farm businesses. Defra’s simplification plan “Maximising Outcomes, Minimising Burdens” launched by the Prime Minister on Monday aims to cut administrative costs on businesses by read more..
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