Month: January 2025

For the candidates who wish to on their own account, land prices pose a challenge. Farmland values have risen by 22% since the start of the recession from £7,400 an acre to £9,000 an acre now .

London, United Kingdom, August 4th, 2021 – Infarm, the world’s fastest-growing urban company, has signed a contract for a new Growing Centre in Bedford which will measure 9,760 sqm in size, offering more than 5500 sqm of growing space in Infarm’s cloud-connected units. When fully equipped, the units – each occupying 25 sqm of …

All the latest agricultural news for the arable and livestock sectors across the . Keep up up-to-date with policy from Defra and the devolved governments, agricultural subsidies …

Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST) is a long-term national capability, jointly funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The programme develops innovative systems that maintain or increase productivity and resilience to future disturbances.

The shift towards megafarms is not inevitable or necessary. Defra has included some measures to support ecological and human-scale , such as a nod towards reducing pesticide use, and a …

1) Enabling cross-sector action. Throughout 2023 and 2024, Growing our Future is bringing together food system actors in focused collaborative working sessions. These will be in person wherever possible, alongside other major events in the food and calendar, and geographically dispersed, to engage actors across the nations.

Diddly Squat lies between Chipping Norton and Chadlington in Oxfordshire. It is in the northern tip of the Cotswolds. “It is a perfectly average really,” Jeremy told us. “1,000 acres, a few sheep, wheat, barley, rape. We wanted to say ‘this is what it’s like ’ [with the new show] and that’s what we’ve tried to do.”

Last modified on Thu 7 Jan 2021 13.16 EST. Farmers in the ’s devolved administrations are facing substantial cuts to their income as a result of Brexit, which could imperil their ability to …

Numerous factors have challenged the agricultural sector of late. The decreasing number of farmers, along with other socio-political and economic instability, can crash the industry entirely. However, the government is working towards solving these issues and the future of seems somewhat promising despite the current …