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The Farming Community Network (FCN) has launched a new resilience checklist to help farmers and farm businesses review some of the common components of business and personal resilience, helping them to identify strengths and highlight areas where additional information or support may be beneficial. 

With the daunting number of funding changes that have been – and still are – taking place across the farming community in the UK, there is a clear need for transparent advice and guidance for farmers on the Farm Resilience Fund. Sarah Juggins reports.

The weather upset many cropping plans in 2023/24, with growers understandably keen to get back on track this autumn. However, as farm support shifts further towards crop-specific measures within the SFI, now is an ideal time to review rotation planning, Hutchinsons experts advise.

Aldi has just announced that the retailer will invest £3 billion with British beef suppliers over the next five years. 

Telecommunications operators have been told they must increase the rent they pay landowners for rural mast agreements by more than 130%. 

The supply of publicly marketed farmland in Great Britain has increased by 36% year-on-year, representing 118,232 acres, according to the latest market analysis from Savills.  

Farming communities have responded to the report from the National Audit Office (NAO) on the Farming and Countryside Programme that has recently been published. 

NFU Cymru said that the Welsh Government’s announcement of interim schemes for 2025 is a “logical step forward” to ensure support for the farming industry and environmental delivery until new replacement schemes are operational. 

The last 12 months were full of unprecedented challenges for the dairy sector, the latest Kingshay Dairy Costings Focus Report revealed. 

Many UK family farms are achieving dreams for their businesses that previously seemed impossible, according to Rural Asset Finance experts. 

The latest Farmland Index launched by global property consultancy Knight Frank has revealed that, despite pre-election uncertainty, the average value of bare agricultural land in England and Wales has reached a new record high of £9,335 per acre in the second quarter of 2024.  

A rural insurer is warning farmers to protect themselves from unforeseen time off as the new figures show that long-term sickness across the industry has been rising by 11% year-on-year.