farming
Farmers want funding to extend hedgerow network and boost nature, shows CPRE survey
Thursday 8 December 2022
There is overwhelming support among farmers for the government to introduce a target to expand the country’s hedgerow network. A nationwide survey showed the vast majority of farmers and land managers responding also wanted the government to properly fund the target, which is 40 per cent more hedgerows by 2050, as recommended by the Climate […] Read more >
Farmland that could grow 250,000 tonnes of vegetables a year lost to development, CPRE research shows
Wednesday 20 July 2022
Two million fewer people can be fed their five a day from vegetables homegrown in England as prime farmland lost to development Food security concerns increase, with 60 per cent of England’s finest agricultural land at the highest risk of flooding from climate change Almost 300,000 homes have been built on prime farmland – with […] Read more >
Last talk of our winter series focuses on the challenges of farming… and also the joys
Monday 11 April 2022
The final talk of our CPRE Essex winter series, entitled Challenges of Farming: Past, Present and Future, was presented by Christy Willett, formerly billed on these pages as an AHDB farmer but who had in fact given up that role in 2020. No matter, she stressed her time with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board […] Read more >
Faith in farming? You bet!
Tuesday 1 March 2022
Faith in farming? The question mark in the title was key, said Rev Canon Janet Nicholls as she introduced her talk to a CPRE Essex audience of 26 people. Does society have faith in producing good food and looking after the environment? Indeed, did farmers have that faith? What if the answer was no? The […] Read more >
Our final talk looks at the challenges of farming… please do join us!
Monday 28 February 2022
The fourth and final talk of our CPRE Essex winter series will be given by Christy Willett on Wednesday (March 2). It begins at 6.30pm via Zoom and will be entitled Challenges of Farming: Past, Present and Future. Ms Willett is an AHDB farmer from Galleywood, Chelmsford, where she farms 475 hectares of owned and […] Read more >
Talk highlights how our farming environment can make a place for wildlife
Wednesday 16 February 2022
It’s fair to say that we could probably all do with a lift in spirits right now – and it duly came with the second in our winter series of talks. Rebecca Inman, of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, presented The Farming Environment to a Zoom audience of 33 participants, who showed their appreciation […] Read more >
Join us for our next talk as the farming environment comes into focus
Monday 7 February 2022
The next talk in our winter series could hardly be more topical, with Rebecca Inman from the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group presenting The Farming Environment. Ms Inman is a farm environment adviser for FWAG East, with almost 25 years’ experience giving on-farm advice. Prior to this she worked for seven years on farm enterprises […] Read more >
Veganuary, solar farms, neonicotinoids, greenwash… it’s all there in the first talk of our winter series
Friday 28 January 2022
The first speaker in our series of winter talks didn’t pull any punches when he got things under way this week with The Importance of British Food Production. Essex farmer Tom Bradshaw, vice-president of the National Farming Union, gave the talk via Zoom to a healthy audience of 29 people on Wednesday (January 26). Launching […] Read more >
Meet farmer Tom Bradshaw, the first speaker in our winter series of talks
Tuesday 18 January 2022
The first speaker in CPRE Essex’s series of winter talks is Essex farmer Tom Bradshaw, vice-president of the National Farming Union. Mr Bradshaw is a fourth-generation farmer from Fordham, near Colchester, and has a tremendous record in British agriculture, having chaired the NFU’s National Combinable Crops Board and represented it as chairman of the local […] Read more >
We’re presenting a winter series of talks based on farming… here are the dates
Friday 14 January 2022
So many people enjoyed our series of talks last winter that we felt we had no option but to offer you some more… With circumstances and indeed life very different a year on, we won’t be holding quite as many as last time and we have chosen to present them under a unifying theme – […] Read more >