Philip Clarke
Editor at The RegTech Pulse
News and Opinion editor, Farmers Weekly. Views expressed here are my own, (though probably bear a close resemblance to FW's as well).
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1 week ago |
fwi.co.uk | Philip Clarke
Ask broiler grower and consultant Chris Wright, Farmers Weekly‘s Poultry Farmer of the Year, what gives him the most satisfaction working in the poultry sector. He will freely admit it is when someone he is advising manages to raise their European Production Efficiency Factor (EPEF) score to more than 450. This calculation takes into account feed conversion, mortality and daily weight gain.
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3 weeks ago |
fwi.co.uk | Philip Clarke
New tractor registrations have slumped to their lowest level for 24 years, providing further evidence that farmers are cutting back on investment as financial and political pressures take their toll. Latest figures from the Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) show that just 1,466 units were registered in March 2025 – more than 24% down on the same month last year.
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3 weeks ago |
fwi.co.uk | Philip Clarke
A first national farmers “strike” is under way, with a number of farmers refusing to load milling wheat out of stores for the next two weeks, in protest at the raft of Labour government policies that are hitting the industry hard. Staffordshire farmer Clive Bailye, one of the strike organisers, said the action had been in planning for a while, but had been kept quiet “to avoid merchant/retailer planning and profiting from this”.
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1 month ago |
fwi.co.uk | Philip Clarke
Alistair Carmichael © UK Parliament Claims made by Defra that it had to close the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2024 scheme because it had run out of money have been called into question by MPs in the House of Commons. When the government announced it was suspending SFI 2024 on Tuesday (11 March) with immediate effect, it portrayed the scheme as a victim of its own success, saying that with 37,000 multi-year live agreements, the budgetary cap had been reached.
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1 month ago |
fwi.co.uk | Philip Clarke
Farmer confidence in England and Wales has plummeted to its lowest level ever, according to the NFU’s latest annual Farmer Confidence Survey, reflecting the multiple blows the sector has faced in recent months. Short-term confidence – which considers farmers’ one-year outlook – has decreased by 10 points since last year, taking the NFU’s index down from -25 to -35. Mid-term confidence, which considers the three-year outlook, has fared even worse, slipping 16 points, from -22 to -38.
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