Buckinghamshire mixed farmer Richard Heady has decided to plant spring wheat on fields originally earmarked for the ...

The government sparked a new wave of farming fury last week when it stopped accepting new applications for the 2024 Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), which rewards farmers for creating ...

When Prohibition ended in 1933, tavern owners needed a cheaper form of music than live bands. Jukeboxes and booze helped bars limp through the 1930s and World War II. After the war, families ...

The Gujarat unit of SFI demanded an independent inquiry into what it described as the institutional failure that led to the student’s death (Photo: Facebook/sfigujaratofficial) The students ...

Rural Payments Agency officials advised John Parson, aged 90, to withdraw his six-month-old Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) application ... so presumably knowing full well there would be ...

Navratri is a nine-day festival wherein people worship Maa Durga. Navratri takes place twice every year, once during Spring (March-April) and once during Autumn (September-October). The one that ...

SFI Health™ EMEA, the regional entity of SFI Health™, a global leader in natural healthcare, is excited to announce that Equazen® products will soon be available in Portugal. The company ...

Defra last week announced the SFI – a replacement for EU Common Agriculture Policy subsidies – would be closed due to the “record number” of signups, with “every penny” of its £1.05 billion budget ...

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But last week, Labour announced that SFI, which was launched in 2022, was now fully subscribed and closed to new applications with immediate effect. Under £1bn worth of deals already agreed ...

A farming roundtable recently met with the Food Security Minister to discuss the 'crushing impact' of Defra's decision to close the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) in England. The discussions, ...