Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

According to the Environment Agency’s National Waste Crime Survey 2025, more than half of landowners and farmers have been affected by waste crime, however, only 12% of them reported the incidents.

Graziers running short of keep this summer can now apply for adjustments to a range of stewardship options through the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) review process.

While eggs are the primary focus at Aberdeenshire’s Farmlay Eggs, the business also grows cereals, including winter and spring barley, winter oilseed rape, and winter wheat. The farm has just started the 2025 harvest.

More than 150 farmers and growers in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire can resume water abstraction, the Environment Agency (EA) confirmed.

The NFU has responded to DEFRA’s farm profitability review, led by Baroness Batters, by highlighting the key changes needed to boost the UK’s food security and meet environmental targets.

A Scottish laboratory reports a growing demand for a test that detects bacteria in ticks responsible for causing Lyme disease in humans. 

Robbie Alman-Wilson, a beef and sheep farmer from Llanbister, Powys, has been announced as the 27th winner of the NFU Cymru / NFU Mutual Wales Woman Farmer of the Year Award.

According to the latest figures from the British Beer and Pub Association, one pub is set to close every single day in 2025 across Great Britain.

A Kent farmer, Lucie Trapp, has made the tough decision to sell her flock of sheep and leave the farming industry for good due to, among other things, the recent extreme weather conditions. 

UK tyre safety charity, TyreSafe, has announced the launch of its Ultimate Guide to Agricultural Tyres to mark this year’s Farm Safety Week.

Although this year’s harvest kicked off earlier than usual, intermittent and often heavy rainfall has slowed the progress, according to the AHDB’s second harvest report of 2025.

As farm workers take to their fields to harvest crops, the region’s electricity distribution network operator is sharing vital safety message as part of its campaign ‘Look Up It’s Live!’