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Farmers who run caravan, camping, and glamping sites have said the rise in agritourism is playing a vital role in educating people about where their food comes from.

The farming industry has welcomed extensions on the Energy Price Guarantee and fuel duty freeze in Chancellor Hunt’s spring budget announcement on 15th March, while the lack of action on frozen tax thresholds and green incentives has been labelled a ‘missed opportunity’.

As the year end approaches, Anne Cianchi, product manager at Farmplan, the UK’s leading agricultural software specialists, shares some timely advice on how farmers can manage their money in uncertain times.

Farming groups have criticised the government over plans to sign trade agreements with Canada and Mexico that will lead to low-welfare imports of beef and pork undercutting British producers.

In the wake of falling fly-tipping incidents over the past year, a rural insurance specialist is calling on farmers and landowners to double down on their efforts to keep environmental criminals at bay to maintain the positive trend.

A PhD student from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) who has made sustainable rope from British wool has been named as one of the top 50 Women in Innovation in the UK.

A recent Irish study argues women in the farm sector have played a key role in the growth of agrotiurism by being more open to farm diversification and going beyond the “productivist” type of thinking in agriculture.

In the run up to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget announcement on 15th March, rural finance specialists urged the government to maintain green incentives for farming and thaw frozen tax thresholds to ease the strain of cost-of-living price hikes.

Following a long period of recession, the figures are finally looking up for British free range egg producers, according to ADAS costings for March 2023, presented at this year’s BFREPA Roadshows. Farmers Guide staff writer Henrietta Szathmary attended the meeting in Wales on 2nd March to report on the discussion.

With recent news suggesting that the UK is “falling behind” on its national carbon emission targets, the UK’s biggest dairy company Arla is calling on more young Brits to enter farming in the next decade to help the industry meet its carbon targets.

With low levels of activity in children and young people being a major health concern, two paediatric physiotherapists have teamed up with a Dorset farm park to create a new children’s book.

Following the launch of a consultation on whether to permanently extend permitted development rights (PDR), we spoke to Pitchup founder Dan Yates to find out what this could mean for British farmers who are hoping to diversify this summer.