The Game & Wildlife Conservancy Trust (GWCT) has promoted Alice Mead to become head of its Allerton Project which conducts conservation science on a 320-hectare demonstration farm in Leicestershire. She succeeds Dr Alastair Leake...
Lender HSBC UK is to offer discounted loans to farm businesses that can prove they are committed to sustainability. The bank’s HSBC Sustainable Farming Pathway is a partnership, initially with sustainable farming charity Linking...
The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture (TIAH) is now officially open, following a period of pilot testing its online platform. The organisation was established under interim management in July 2021 through the takeover of the...
A new £5.9 million government funded research project will explore how pulse crops could help the UK to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5Mt CO₂e per annum - or 54% of the maximum potential for UK agriculture. The project, funded by Defra’s Farming Innovation...
A joint letter from over 50 agri-food chain organisations urges government to provide more clarity on its Environmental Land Management (ELMs) schemes so that farmers and their advisers can plan ahead. This...
Digital farm platform developer Trinity AgTech has appointed Tom Allen-Stevens as its director of communications and PR. The Oxfordshire farmer has spent the last decade as editor of Crop Production Magazine (CPM), the specialist journal for UK arable farms. A...