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Six key themes facing farmers and landowners for 2025
Experts have identified what they think will prove to be the biggest themes facing farms in the coming year and how there may be ways to turn…
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Farmers gear up for 2025 Big Farmland Bird Count
Farmers and landowners are being asked to monitor the bird species on their land as part of the 2025 Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC). The count, now…
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Rare centuries-old slate shard fences crop up on Lake District farms
Rare, centuries-old slate shard fences are once more features of the farming landscape in the Lake District following careful restoration by farmers…
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Farm leaders slam scrapping of deadline to record rights of way
Farm leaders have criticised the government's move to ditch the 2031 cut-off date for adding unrecorded rights of way to the 'definitive map' in…
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Farms told to be compliant with tax rules affecting Xmas ventures
With all else happening on the tax front, farmers are being advised to be compliant with rules that affect additional Christmas trading ventures. The…
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Plans to build UK's largest solar farm move to new phase
Plans to build the UK’s largest solar farm covering some 2,400-acres of land in Oxfordshire have moved a step forward. This means that the proposed…
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'Unintended consequences' for tenant farmers facing tax relief changes
Whilst there has been much talk about the impact of the family farm inheritance tax, the effect on one key farming sector has been overlooked. Tenant…
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Farm launches initiative to give new entrant their 'first big break'
A County Durham estate has launched an initiative designed to give a new entrant to farming their 'first big break'. The Lartington Estate says its…
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Tenant farm sector in 'stasis' as government urged to do more
The tenant farming sector has settled at an 'unnatural equilibrium' due in part to the 'stifling effect' of area-based entitlements and subsidies…
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Up to 75,000 farms 'likely to be affected' by inheritance tax changes
Up to 75,000 individual farm business owners are 'likely to be affected' by the government’s changes to inheritance tax (IHT) over the coming…
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