Last Friday, we held a Supper Night at Tebay funded by our DEFRA Farmer Welfare project with over 50 farmers getting together for food and a craic. There was a […]

Defra has announced a new strategy to control Bovine TB with the aim of ending culling within 5 years.  The measures will include a badger population survey and a national […]

Following the report last week of cases in Norfolk and Suffolk, Bluetongue virus BTV-3 has now been confirmed in a single bull at a farm near Withernsea in the East […]

There is still time to sign up to the Farm for the Future groups based at Longtown, Pateley Bridge, Sedbergh and Flimby.  The programme includes a series of workshops and […]

Farmers in Cumbria can apply for vouchers worth up to £500 towards the cost of farm business advice funded by the Rural England Prosperity Fund.  There are 3 forms to […]

To help ease the significant challenges facing farmers at this time, Westmorland and Furness Council have made available some support payments from the Household Support Fund to ease the cost […]

The endorsed action, GRH6: Manage priority habitat species-rich grassland, is now available within SFI 2024.  This payment of £646/ha is for land that is either on the priority habitat inventory map […]

SFI 2023 UPDATE For farmers that have an SFI 2023 agreement, Defra has announced that it will no longer be possible to update the agreement at its 12 month anniversary, […]

To apply early for the expanded SFI 2024 offer, you can complete a short expression of interest and will then be contacted by the RPA to develop an application.  The new SFI scheme information […]

The Royal Countryside Fund has made £250,000 available to support rural community-led activities in Cumbria.  Organisations can apply for up to £30,000 for a period of 18 months for projects […]

Farmers who expressed an interest in applying to SFI 2024 are now being contacted by the Rural Payments Agency to help them test the system and Defra has reported that […]