Posted On: August 22, 2020
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...
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Posted On: August 12, 2020
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...
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Posted On: August 4, 2020
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...
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Posted On: July 20, 2020
#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...
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Posted On: March 26, 2020
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
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