Rachael Brown

England

Chief Reporter @farmersguardian 👩🏻‍🌾 Got a story?✍️[email protected] Passionate about farming and obsessed with Burnley FC. Previously ITV.

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Red Tractor to appoint a farmer well-being director

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

Red Tractor said the role would include ensuring assessors and Red Tractor had appropriate training to support farmers Red Tractor will appoint a director with specific responsibility for overseeing how the assurance body contributes to and is sensitive to farmers' well-being as part of its response to recommendations... To continue reading... Login New to Farmers Guardian? Register for 1 free article per week or become a member for unlimited access to essential farming news and insights....
Animal welfare import report sends warning to MPs

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

Animal welfare import report sends warning to MPs ‘Closing the Welfare Gap: Why the UK Must Apply Its Animal Protection Standards to Imports' report has been praised for its ‘apt timing' with trade negotiations being brought into focus 04 May 2025 • 1 min read
Red Tractor seeks views on proposals for tiered pig welfare standards

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

The Red Tractor Pigs Sector Board is seeking views on proposals to introduce tiered welfare standards and labelling for UK pigmeat. READ NOW: EXCLUSIVE: Investment plans on tenant farms 'stifled' ...
Bluetongue vaccine approval 'reassuring' for Scottish farmers

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

NSA said while the bluetongue vaccine offered another tool for sheep farmers, it will not protect livestock totally Scottish approval of the Bluetongue vaccine was ‘reassuring' for the sheep industry and gives farmers 'another option' in their toolbox, says the Scottish region of the National Sheep Association. READ... To continue reading... Login New to Farmers Guardian? Register for 1 free article per week or become a member for unlimited access to essential farming news and insights....
'Heartbreaking' concerns from FG's tenant farmers survey raised in House of Lords

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

'Heartbreaking' concerns from FG's tenant farmers survey raised in House of Lords Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Livermore said while he understood the ‘strength of feeling', he did 'not necessarily accept' the survey's conclusions 02 May 2025 • 3 min read
OPINION:

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

OPINION: "What protection will tenant farmers have?" Chief reporter Rachael Brown questions what is being done to protect the agricultural tenanted sector to ensure it thrives, for both tenants and landlords going forward 02 May 2025 • 1 min read
Early communication key to enable tenant farmers to plan

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

Early communication key to enable tenant farmers to plan Knight Frank agent said while it was not surprising many estates had not communicated their IHT plans to tenants, communication was important– even if it is to explain that an estate is reviewing matters 02 May 2025 • 3 min read
Land Use Framework 'complacent' towards UK food production

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

Land Use Framework 'complacent' towards UK food production NFU said that with no legislative target for food production it was the ‘poor relation' in negotiations, and believed the Government was wrong to assume farm productivity levels would compensate for loss of agricultural land 01 May 2025 • 4 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Investment plans on tenant farms 'stifled'

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

EXCLUSIVE: Investment plans on tenant farms 'stifled' With tenant farmers feeling overlooked in the discussion about the impact of Inheritance Tax changes on their farms, chief reporter Rachael Brown takes a look at the concerns coming from the sector 01 May 2025 • 7 min read
April 30: Councils to seize and crush fly-tipping vehicles to clean up rural Britain after farming families pushed into 'debt and despair'

1 month ago | farmersguardian.com | Rachael Brown

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown discusses Defra's announcement to give councils the power to seize and crush vehicles belonging to waste criminals and fly tippers after MPs warned that farming families were being pushed into 'debt and despair' due to criminals dumping waste on their land, plus the sheep industry's concerns that destocking the uplands is leading to 'increased' wildfire risks, and the 130 jobs at risk due to the planned closure of Arla's milk processing...