Farming events from Farmers Weekly

Join our webinar series which answers your questions on securing a sustainable future for your farm business.

Our industry experts will examine topics including preparing for BPS withdrawal, guidance on future support measures, including ELM, and how to make changes to your business.

The sessions and dates:

• Starting your journey - Available on demand
• The road to net zero - Available on demand
• The pathway to productivity - Thursday 27th January 2022
• Successful soil - Thursday 17th March 2022
• Benefitting from biodiversity - Thursday 5th May 2022

The first of our webinar series explores what you should be doing now to change your business to meet the challenges ahead without the Basic Payment Scheme.

Experts and farmers join us to find out how to use benchmarking to assess the health of your farm business to find out where you need to be and how to get there.

In this first edition for the Transition Summit, we looked at:

• The size of the challenge
• Reliance on BPS (Eng), and the need to move to green payments (Eng, Sco, Wal, NI)
• Why farmers need to transition
• The need to deliver value for public money
• Where to start and why do it early
• Where we are now according to the research

The second in our Transition Summit webinars looks at how to adjust your farming system to qualify for the new environmental payments, including ELM.

Our sector has some very ambitious plans for achieving net zero before the government’s 2050 deadline. The NFU has set the goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the whole of agriculture in England and Wales by 2040.

But how how can you lower emissions and achieve net zero and still run a productive business?

In this session, we will address:

• Why is this farming’s challenge?
• Reflections on COP26
• There is a climate crisis and we need to do our bit
• Where farming fits into the wider economy – carbon mitigation hierarchy