Everything filed under News.
What's moving in UK farming this week — DEFRA announcements, market shifts, technology rollouts and the trade decisions that hit the gate price. Coverage from outside the press release: policy detail and on-farm consequences side by side, written by Suffolk grower Tim Harfield.
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Industry
Man denies manslaughter charge over boy’s death on Cumbria farm
A routine firearms incident on a Cumbrian farm has ended in the most devastating way possible – the death of an eight-year-old child.
5 min -
Arable
UK Glasshouse and Polytunnel Production 2026: A Working Grower’s Guide
UK glasshouse and polytunnel production in 2026 — heated glass economics, lighting, CO2, hydroponics, IPM, water and labour from a working grower.
24 min -
Arable
UK Farm Prices and Agricultural Markets: A Working Farmer’s Guide to Reading the Trade in 2026
This guide explains where UK farm prices come from in 2026, who actually publishes them, how to read the daily and weekly numbers across cereals, beef, s...
19 min -
Industry
Clarkson expands Diddly Squat brand with major Ocado partnership
Ocado Partnership — Tim’s take:There’s a peculiar irony in watching a man who once drove tractors on television for entertainment now ship his farm p...
6 min -
Arable
UK Crop Protection 2026: A Working Grower’s IPM Guide
UK crop protection in 2026: HSE rules, residue specs, withdrawn actives, IPM in practice. From a working salad and veg grower in Suffolk.
19 min -
Industry
UK Farm Succession Planning 2026: Beyond the Inheritance Tax Bill
Farm succession beyond the inheritance tax bill — partnerships, wills, family meetings, lifetime gifting, and the lifestyle reckoning.
23 min -
Industry
UK Farm Renewable Energy 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide to Solar, Wind, AD and Biomass
This guide covers the four big farm-scale renewables (solar PV, wind, anaerobic digestion and biomass), the heat pump add-on, the grid-connection.
24 min -
Arable
UK Precision Agriculture 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide for Salad/Veg and Small Arable
What earns its keep on a sub-500-acre holding: precision kit for salad/veg and small arable, with SFI 2026, Capital Grants and FETF mapped against it.
17 min -
Grants
SFI 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide to the 71 Actions, Payment Rates and the June Window
SFI 2026 actions, payment rates and the June 2026 window for under-50ha farms, in plain English from a working Suffolk farmer.
25 min -
Arable
UK Salad and Vegetable Production: A Working Grower’s Guide to 2026
It covers the economics, agronomy, labour, cold chain and supermarket dynamics that decide whether a salad and vegetable holding clears its costs in 2026,.
25 min