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An improved capital grants offer represents the biggest change to this year’s Countryside Stewardship (CS) scheme. Strutt and Parker farm consultant Paul Dennison explains what opportunities this presents.

The full Sustainable Farming Incentive will not be available until 2024, but a scaled-back version of it will launch in 2022.

Graham Tweddle and his family are the third generation to farm at Archdeacon Newton.

Antony Ollerton, an arable farmer from Wigan, used two Capital Grant schemes in 2019 and 2020 which allowed him to concrete the farmyard.  

Defra said its new Bovine TB Partnership will be a driving force in helping to progress the Government’s aim of eradicating the disease by 2038. Olivia Midgley speaks to two farmers on the board. 

Íæż½ã½ã who applied for 2020 Countryside Stewardship (CS) grants almost 12 months ago are still in limbo after civil servants said they could not visit their farms to sign off applications due to Covid-19.

A domestic cat in Ireland contracted TB from a badger which had been vaccinated with the BCG vaccine.

Record low or negative interest rates could see more farmers investing in new projects such as diversifications, expansion or kit that will help make them more efficient and reduce their carbon emissions.

With 2021 looking like another bumper year for holidaying in the UK once coronavirus restrictions are lifted, we look at the glamping trend and ask how farmers can use the time now to prepare for the upcoming season.

Agri-businesses are becoming more inclusive in terms of gender and racial diversity, but while awareness of equality in the sector is growing there is still more to be done, a new survey has found.