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Big Farming Survey on sector wellbeing
Farming charity RABI has launched what it says is the largest ever wellbeing survey of its kind in England and Wales. The Big Farming Survey, which aims to gather 26,000 responses from farming people, will help identify how increasingly complex challenges in the...
New SRUC board members
Jane Craigie, owner of the agrifood and rural PR business Jane Craigie Marketing based in Aberdeenshire, is among three new non-executive directors to be appointed to the Board of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC). Ms Craigie is a past chair of the British Guild of...
De Sangosse helps two local farm charities
De Sangosse, the Cambridgeshire-based specialist in complementary agrochemical chemistry and molluscicides, donated £1,000 split between two local agricultural charities in 2020. The Prospects Trust and YANA will both receive £500 from the company. The Prospects Trust...
New global CTO for Corteva
Corteva Agriscience has appointed Dr Sam Eathington as its chief technology officer, leading its Research & Development organisation and “helping to drive global agricultural innovation for the benefit of farmers, consumers and the planet”. He succeeds Dr Neal...
Christine Tacon to chair Red Tractor Assurance
Christine Tacon CBE is the new chair of Assured Food Standards, the not-for-profit company owned by the farming unions, AHDB, Dairy UK and the British Retail Consortium, that operates the Red Tractor Assurance scheme. She replaces Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe who resigned...
Chair for new UK environmental body
Dame Glenys Stacey is the preferred candidate to chair the new independent Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), says Defra secretary of state George Eustice. The appointment is subject to confirmation by the EFRA and Environmental Audit select committees. The...