Our area annual meetings will be held in person, with the Farmer Network Company AGM taking place online, to make it accessible for members from all areas. The papers for all meetings can be found below. Northumberland – Wednesday 28th…
The 2025 Capital Grants application window opened briefly on 3 July and closed on 1 August 2025. As part of the closure announcement, applicants were informed that there may be some exceptions for those who were unable to submit their…
The Farming Equipment and Technology grant offers for animal health and welfare items are now being emailed to applicants. Be warned, this email sometimes goes into Junk Mail so check you junk mail folder if you have applied and haven’t…
Adam attended a Farmwell event organised by Farming Community Network in Penrith this week. One of the guest speakers was Robbie Moore, MP for Keighley and Ilkley in West Yorkshire and is currently DEFRA shadow minister. He is also an…
LOTS OF INFORMATION FOR FARMERS TO CONSIDER This week, Defra opened the Countryside Stewardship scheme for applications and published more details about their exit scheme and the de-linking of Basic Payments from land. For Countryside Stewardship, some of the changes…
Cumbrian farmers have dedicated acres of land to growing fruit and vegetables this year, thanks to support from a new initiative, Home Grown Here. The scheme will see a tasty range of fresh produce grown in the county, from peas…
DEFRA LUMP SUM EXIT SCHEME & DELINKED PAYMENTS CONSULTATION This week, Defra launched a consultation about offering farmers who want to exit the industry a one-off lump sum payment and to ‘delink’ Direct Payments from land for all farmers from…
This morning, Environment Secretary, George Eustice MP, set out the roadmap for the forthcoming changes to farm support. The ‘Path to Sustainable Farming’ document, sets out more detail on the changes and what they will mean for farmers:
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