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The Farmers Guide team brings you the latest harvest 2025 updates from across the UK. Stay with us for more as the season unfolds.

Several farm buildings and vehicles have been destroyed in a huge blaze in Little Hallingbury, Essex.

The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) has voiced serious concerns about the Scottish Government’s “continued failure” to deliver a coherent agricultural policy to support Scotland’s red meat sector — particularly its troubled suckler beef producers — in the wake of the QMS ‘Scottish Red Meat Resilience Group’ initiative.

UK farming industry leaders said that further agricultural concessions would cripple an already hard-pressed farming and growing sector, which they argued had ‘done its bit’ on trade with the USA.

Farmers wanting to invest in new technology for their farming businesses still have time to apply for the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025.

With the recent announcement from DEFRA that the SFI 2024 scheme will reopen to eligible applicants from midday today, 7th July, Georgina Wallis of Hutchinsons has given her advice on how to optimise the opportunity.

One agricultural vehicle was destroyed and one small barn was significantly damaged in a fire that broke out on a farm in Llandeilo, Wales. 

RSPCA Assured is setting up new welfare standards for chickens which will come into effect in September. 

The NFU is calling on the government to strengthen the future of the UK’s food security by improving the quality of how farming and food production-related subjects are taught in schools. 

A young farmer starting out on a county council tenancy in Staffordshire has shared his view that council farms are playing a vital role in supporting the next generation of British farmers.

Farmer Robert Craig experienced a very unusual day on his farm as he performed a roadside emergency caesarean section procedure on a hare.

During his speech at Groundswell, environment secretary Steve Reed told farmers that restoring nature is “central to the government’s approach”, however, the NFU said updates to SFI still “lack clarity”.