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The importance of funding and scale should not be overlooked when farmers are negotiating the various challenges facing their businesses, HRH The Princess Royal told the Oxford Farming Conference.

Farm-based solar projects will be an important part of the energy mix going forward but ’mega’ arrays of ground mounted panels will continue to face opposition, the NFU has said.

YOUNG people keen on a career in agroecological farming are being held back by a lack of training and paid work opportunities.

Íæż½ã½ã and growers in England can benefit from up to £500,000 in Government funding to invest in agritech solutions which could help boost their businesses and shore up food production.

UK agriculture must turn the net zero conundrum on its head and ‘see its current liabilities as assets’, the 2021 Nuffield Conference heard.

With major farming policy changes in Wales set for next year there was one clear message emerging from this week’s Royal Welsh Winter Fair – sustainability.

Rural communities have been some of the hardest hit by Storm Arwen, with fallen trees, debris and snow making roads impassable and freezing temperatures adding to treacherous conditions.

Research centres across the UK are reporting encouraging results from trials which they hope will bring solutions to farming’s most pressing problems.