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Royal Countryside Fund benefits from lottery cash

The Royal Countryside Fund has been awarded £900,000 in funding by the People’s Postcode Lottery to help develop its environmental farming programmes. Funding will be provided as annual payments of…

CRIME

Labour launches new rural crime strategy

The Labour Party is promising to “take down rural crime gangs” as part of a new rural crime strategy, which it claims will help protect communities from the scourge of…

CULTIVATION AND DRILLING

Pottinger hoes get slicker Profiline isobus control

Easier implement setting up and operation is promised with the addition of an isobus control option for Pottinger’s Flexcare precision hoes and Terrasem cultivator drills. The Profiline setup gives the…

NEWS

Defra imposes recruitment freeze in bid to reduce headcount

Defra has imposed a department-wide recruitment freeze on all external positions as it works to reduce its overall staffing numbers. All publicly listed jobs at Defra have been removed from…

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AHDB calls to turn residual potato levy into industry grants

AHDB is recommending that government ministers allow its remaining potato levy funds be used to support various industry projects in the potato sector. The levy board has proposed that funding,…

BUSINESS

Supermarkets told to pay a sustainable price for food

Farmers and growers are bearing a disproportionate share of the risk in food supply chains, and supermarkets need to step up to ensure they receive a fair price and more…

SLURRY TANKERS

Tramspread launches quick-build slurry storage tanks

Tramspread has introduced a new range of steel storage tanks that can be erected relatively quickly without laying a concrete base. The Butek Tank stores instead sit on a ring…

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GRANTS

Royal Countryside Fund benefits from lottery cash

The Royal Countryside Fund has been awarded £900,000 in funding by the People’s Postcode Lottery to help develop its environmental farming programmes. Funding will be provided as annual payments of…

CRIME

Labour launches new rural crime strategy

The Labour Party is promising to “take down rural crime gangs” as part of a new rural crime strategy, which it claims will help protect communities from the scourge of…

CULTIVATION AND DRILLING

Pottinger hoes get slicker Profiline isobus control

Easier implement setting up and operation is promised with the addition of an isobus control option for Pottinger’s Flexcare precision hoes and Terrasem cultivator drills. The Profiline setup gives the…

NEWS

Defra imposes recruitment freeze in bid to reduce headcount

Defra has imposed a department-wide recruitment freeze on all external positions as it works to reduce its overall staffing numbers. All publicly listed jobs at Defra have been removed from…

NEWS

AHDB calls to turn residual potato levy into industry grants

AHDB is recommending that government ministers allow its remaining potato levy funds be used to support various industry projects in the potato sector. The levy board has proposed that funding,…

BUSINESS

Supermarkets told to pay a sustainable price for food

Farmers and growers are bearing a disproportionate share of the risk in food supply chains, and supermarkets need to step up to ensure they receive a fair price and more…

SLURRY TANKERS

Tramspread launches quick-build slurry storage tanks

Tramspread has introduced a new range of steel storage tanks that can be erected relatively quickly without laying a concrete base. The Butek Tank stores instead sit on a ring…

TRANSITION

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