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90 farm emergencies a year spark life-saving training drive in Wales
Emergency medical teams attend around 90 farming-related incidents every year in Wales, prompting a new drive to equip farmers with life-saving…
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136 hectares of farmland to be rewetted in Great Fen project
Work has begun to rewet 136 hectares of former wheat and potato land in Cambridgeshire, as a major new trial seeks to show whether peat restoration…
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Four in ten farmers consider quitting as uncertainty mounts
More than four in ten British farmers have considered quitting farming as financial pressure, policy uncertainty and increasingly unpredictable…
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Rural campaigners urge controlled burning reform as wildfire risks rise
Farmers and landowners should be given greater freedom to use controlled burning to reduce wildfire risk, rural campaigners have said, after an…
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Scottish farm landlords face 10-day damp and mould deadline
Scottish farms and estates letting residential property will have just 10 working days to investigate suspected damp and mould under new rules taking…
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Clarkson warns farm pressures are 'relentless' after 'terrible' year
British farmers are facing “relentless” pressure from bad weather, rising energy costs, taxation and global instability, Jeremy Clarkson has warned…
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Welsh farmers say mobile mast rent cuts threaten rural signal
Farmers in Wales are warning that deep cuts to mobile mast rents could leave rural communities with worse phone coverage as landowners reconsider…
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McDonald's opens paid 2027/28 placement for aspiring young farmers
McDonald’s is offering aspiring young farmers a paid 12-month route into the food and farming industry through its 2027/28 Progressive Young Farmers…
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Only 5% of England's farmers are under 35, report warns
Only 5% of farmers in England are under 35, prompting fresh calls for urgent action to bring more young people into agriculture. The National…
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25-year-old secures 900-acre Duchy tenancy in Herefordshire
A 25-year-old Herefordshire farmer is preparing to take on a 900-acre Duchy of Cornwall farm under a new 25-year tenancy designed to support…
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