"Use it or lose it - it's your money" is the message the Lantra managed
LandSkills programme is saying to agricultural businesses in Yorkshire and
Humber.
The bond of friendship forged by small producers of sorts and sizes reaches its 10th birthday at the Local Produce Market on the 22nd August at Lostwithiel Community Centre, Cornwall. Run by smallholders specifically for small producers this market is different because of its diversity. You keep the pigs, you sell the pork. You keep the goats, you sell all things goaty from the meat and the milk to the cheese and the soap. You farmed venison last week, wept over ill health yesterday but today your needlecraft skills have been relearned. Never be beaten is what smallholders have to learn and we are a very hardy breed of country people. Come and celebrate with us, have a piece of cake and a cup of tea, and ENJOY.
August 1st marked the ancient festival of Lammas Day when the first grain harvest was celebrated with feasting - and Staffordshire County Council Deputy Leader is reviving the tradition by giving thanks to the agricultural community in the county.
Beaten, tortured, discarded and starved: tragic animal victims of the throw-away society
The decaying body of a starved dog found chained by a radiator, a cat kicked to death for having muddy paws, 316 rats crammed into seven cages and a dog with a deep neck wound from a collar more than four inches smaller than its neck. This is just a tiny sample of the horrors confronted by RSPCA inspectors in 2007.
Half of our vegetables and 95% of our fruit comes from beyond our shores, but the UK's leading organic growing charity is promoting an alternative to imported produce; planting and harvesting our own food on the great, British allotment.
Report shows edible cities are the future
There are huge opportunities to grow more food in our cities, a new report by Sustain shows. Edible Cities,looks at examples of urban agriculture projects in cities including New York, Milwaukee and Chicago and identifies a series of opportunities that other cities could be adopting.
A CLA campaign to win fundamental changes to Government proposals for a right of access to the English coast have been given a major boost by a House of Commons Select Committee.
It has been reported that the residential property market is experiencing a slowdown in the number of transactions, together with a readjustment in prices from the levels reached during 2007.
New upland payments are recognition of the valuable environmental work farmers carry out in the hills according to the NFU, which lobbied hard for the addition to the Entry Level Scheme.
Sustainably produced biofuels can play a key role in addressing the challenge of climate change and energy security and the Government should restate its commitment to their use rather than creating uncertainty by changing targets, says the NFU.
NFU livestock board chairman Alistair Mackintosh is calling on the whole supply chain to work closely in the coming weeks to help deliver sustainable beef and lamb prices.
Keepers of rare and traditional breeds of susceptible animals in the Bluetongue Protection Zone in England and Wales were urged today to contact their vets to arrange urgent vaccination of their animals.
Defra has announced that the Surveillance Zone and remaining disease control area restrictions put in place following the outbreak of H7N7 avian influenza in Oxfordshire will lift today, Tuesday, July 8.
