August 22, 2020
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Storm Ciara, Storm Dennis, COVID-19, BREXIT and now Storm Ellen. This year’s sequence of extreme weather events would be enough to test any farmers resilience. Add to that all the difficulties of a global pandemic and uncertainties over BREXIT and we see the UK farming sector challenged like never before. Climate change is having a
August 12, 2020
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We have all faced challenges in 2020, a very surreal year so far but, our team member, Clara Bright, is taking things to extremes. In April Clara was going to be running the London Marathon in aid of Montgomeryshire Emergency Doctors (MED). Dr Les Milne, a volunteer doctor at MED, assisted Clara when she had
August 4, 2020
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24 Hours celebrating British Food & Farming The annual #Farm24 campaign, created by the Farmers Guardian and sponsored by Morrisons, will take place from 5am on 6th August to 5am on 7th August. This is a wonderful opportunity for the public to take to social media and say thank you to our British farmers. Farmers
July 20, 2020
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#FarmSafetyWeek – 20th -24th July Take Safety Seriously Worrying statistics show that fatal injuries in farming are around 18 times as high as the average rate across all industries, accounting for more than 22% of all workplace fatalities according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). 2019 HSE figures shows that farming still has the
March 26, 2020
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Sadly, in the vast majority of cases, the Business Interruption (BI) section of the insurance policy does not cover loss of income for the sweeping business closures announced last week