Mark Chatterton, a director at Duncan & Toplis who leads the company’s team of agriculture specialists, says the prime minister and environment secretary have demonstrated “good timing” in announcing the funding, potentially cutting off talk of possible demonstrations as seen elsewhere in Europe. Mark said: “This is good timing from the government – it has […]
Agricultural market leader Cefetra has launched a new partnership with leading bank NatWest to reduce the financial barriers for farmers transitioning to more sustainable agricultural practices. Through its asset finance arm Lombard, NatWest will provide critical financial assistance to farmers in the Cefetra supply chain under the innovative Cefetra Ecosystem Services programme, which was recently […]
2023 was a pivotal year for GB farmland supply with 157,200 acres marketed, which is 15% more than the previous five-year average, but still below the 162,000 acres average recorded during the years between 2003 and 2016. In its latest rural research publication Spotlight: The Farmland Market Savills suggests there is potential for publicly marketed supply to […]
The start up behind a new AI-based forecasting tool for the soft fruit industry was one of just 13 businesses selected from across the UK to showcase innovation and investment opportunity to the world’s leading financiers. FruitCast, which uses imagery and data to forecast growth in strawberry plants, was invited alongside Aston Martin, McLaren Group […]
The head of agriculture at one of the Midlands’ largest accountancy and business advisers has set out the “unprecedented” impact of recent floods on farming livelihoods in parts of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. Mark Chatterton, a director at Duncan & Toplis who leads the company’s team of agriculture specialists, says this year’s floods were the […]
In response to severe flooding seen in England and Wales, NatWest is mobilising its agricultural team to support its farming customers who have been affected. NatWest’s agricultural team are offering individual financial solutions to any customers impacted, with financial support available for those hit by the adverse weather conditions both in the short, medium and […]
The start up behind a new AI-based forecasting tool for the soft fruit industry was one of just 13 businesses selected from across the UK to showcase innovation and investment opportunity to the world’s leading financiers. FruitCast, which uses imagery and data to forecast growth in strawberry plants, was invited alongside Aston Martin, McLaren Group […]
The Environmental Farmers Group (EFG), Peakland Environmental Farmers (PEF) and Swaledale & Wensleydale Environmental Farmers (SWEF) now represent 469 land managers with three shared objectives of carbon neutrality, biodiversity recovery and cleaner rivers. Since it was launched last year by farmers in Hampshire and Wiltshire, the original EFG has undergone a rapid expansion. More groups […]
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s recent suggestion that we could import our soft fruit from abroad to override the labour issue has caused a lot of irritation in the UK horticulture and agriculture sectors. Whatever the economics or opinions on this, the bigger picture needs to remain firmly in sight, which is the significant contribution of the soft […]
Ahead of COP28, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) urges global leaders to shift gears and drastically and urgently scale-up climate finance for small-scale farmers and small agribusinesses, who produce one third of the world’s food and up to 70 percent of the food in low- and middle-income countries. Many are brutally impacted […]
