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The annual Household Food Management Survey has revealed that despite being a nation of food lovers, when it comes to food waste, fresh produce is the UK’s most binned item.

Clarkson’s Farm star, Charlie Ireland, is celebrating the news that rural consultancy Ceres Group is opening three new offices in Northampton, Newbury and Stamford.

The outdoor accommodation provider Pitchup.com is continuing its partnership with The Farming Community Network (FCN) for the second year, after the two organisations first joined forces in November 2023.

Farmer Tom asked ChatGPT to summarise farmers’ posts on the Farming Forum over the past six months, during which the sector has faced unprecedented challenges.

Robertshaw’s Farm Shop is set to open near Skipton following a £2.85 million funding deal with NatWest and the bank’s asset finance partner Lombard.

An East Yorkshire company has been fined more than half a million pounds after an employee’s lower arm was severed when it became entangled in a conveyor. 

Campaigners Farmers To Action have called on farmers, veterans, small business owners and the public to join them on the action day against the Labour government.

Tesco has confirmed that it is beginning a trial in which it will be giving away expiring food to customers for free with the aim to cut food waste. 

A farming roundtable organised by the NFU has met with food security and rural affairs minister Daniel Zeichner to explain the crushing impact of Defra’s decision to close the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and raise the urgent need for transparency from Defra.

Rural businesses in England are waiting years, sometimes even decades, to get planning permission to enable investment and build homes, said CLA.

“I could wake up one morning in the very near future to be told by West Oxfordshire District Council that they now own my farm,” wrote Jeremy Clarkson in response to the latest news that the Planning and Infrastructure Bill was introduced to Parliament. 

Roger Apsey, who farms in Charlton Musgrove, South Somerset, rescued two-day-old piglets from a fire that broke out in his barn in the middle of the night.