CFE encourages farmers and land managers across England to protect and enhance the environmental value of farmland, through environmental measures that sit alongside productive agriculture.
The government’s 25-year Environment Plan calls on the farming community to balance safe, traceable and high-quality British food with the protection and enhancement of the British countryside.
Webinars are available to members on the current Due Diligence consultation on forest risk commodities. 2 are being offered by Defra in January, and AIC will be hosting its own webinar Q&A on this subject for members in early February.
Defra steps up to resolve the confusion around the interpretation of Farming Rules for Water, England. A move from prescription to outcome based legislation requires a widespread change in mindset.
AIC has been approached by Defra to ask if members would consider applying for the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal.
This is a statutory appeal body created by primary legislation, and will make legally binding decisions about national listing of new varieties of plants and UK plant variety rights. It is UK wide.
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The Farm Safety Partnership is hoping to reduce farm fatalities by driving home the message about following best practice. It may not always be easy to follow best practice especially when you are under time pressure, but there is no doubt following best practice at all times will reduce the risk of a serious incident on your farm and may well save a life too.
Two recent serious accidents have highlighted the need to rethink risk assessment on all agricultural machinery. In both case studies employees suffered life changing injuries and could have been avoided had the risk been mitigated.
The AHDB project monitoring mycotoxins and other contaminants in UK cereals used in malting, milling and animal feed reports harvest 2021 sample results
Both consultations cover the same GMO products but are set out in slightly different formats. Please note that in both cases the consultation period ends on 25th January 2022.
On a normal chilly grey morning in Spring 2022, lorry driver Steve Hardy was delivering animal feed to UK farms. What happened next would change Steve's life forever. This is a story about a lone worker who would have died had it not been for a recent upgrade to his lorry.
In this issue we examine the impact of recent challenges to the fertiliser sector, including the ongoing disruption caused by rising global gas prices to fertiliser production and pricing, and shortages of labour and lorry drivers.
UK businesses are gearing up for the impact of OMICROM with up to 25% employee absences expected over the coming months. This could have a massive impact on agricultural businesses across the UK following on from what has been a very turbulent two years since the initial COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020.
