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.
From the fields and beyond
UK farming 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.
Grants
SFI 2026 (SFI26): A Working Farmer’s Guide to Payment Rates, the 71 Actions and the September Window
SFI 2026 actions, payment rates and the Window 2 opening Defra expects from 22 September, in plain English from a working Suffolk farmer.
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,.
News
Nz meat industry bodies release manifesto for 2026 election
New Zealand's major meat industry bodies have published a thorough manifesto calling on political parties to protect sheep and beef farmers as the countr...
News
Record £8.5m enforcement funding signals new era of water company
8.5 million pounds in Enforcement Undertakings, up 47% in a year. What tougher water-company enforcement means for farms with watercourses or boreholes.
Industry
John McLenaghan elected UFU president as union charts new course
Ulster Farmers' Union elects Garvagh beef and biogas farmer John McLenaghan as president alongside returning and new deputy presidents at Loughry Campus.
Industry
Agri-BusinessReport: Scotland’s total farm income rises by 24% in 2025
Scotland's farm income hits record £1.5 billion in 2025, with beef sector leading a 24% surge. What this means for farmers across the UK.
Policy
Class Q & Class R Permitted Development Rights: A Working Farmer’s Guide to Converting Farm Buildings in 2026
A working farmer's guide to converting farm buildings under Class Q, Class R and Part 6 PD rights — the 2024 reforms, prior approval and the traps.
Policy
Farm Inheritance Tax After the 2024 Budget: A Working Farmer’s Guide to APR, BPR and the April 2026 Reforms
Plain-English UK farm inheritance tax 2026 guide — APR, BPR, the £2.5m allowance from April 2026, and practical succession steps.
Industry
Natural flystrike methods cut chemical use in farmer-led trial
Five UK sheep farmers have completed a one-year trial demonstrating that natural flystrike prevention methods can work alongside—or even replace—conventi...
