Cambridgeshire farmer David Felce wins 2025 Rawcliffe Bridge Award for Sustainability Award in partnership with The Andersons Centre was requested for the FASTAC, The Country Trust and The Royal Entomological Society Judges praise Felce for collaboration, biodiversity...
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Perfecting Potatoes Together: Innovation and Insight
The late blight pathogen is constantly evolving, and the emergence of increasingly aggressive blight strains and those with resistance to key chemistries makes building effective programmes more challenging. BASF’s recent Perfecting Potatoes Together webinar, in...
Regenerative farming visitors 35% up at Groundswell 2025
Groundswell 2025, which ran from 1-3 July, welcomed over 10,000 visitors to the Cherry family’s Lannock Farm near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. The sell-out regenerative agriculture event included over 400 speakers from around the world, including the ‘grandfather’ of...
Anchors Aweigh: Finding a life jacket in the stormy sea of farming life
Farmer Stephen Mackenzie shares his inspiring story of swapping the soil for the sea … A BACKGROUND that will ring true with many - having a family member at the helm of the family’s farm and feeling somehow rudderless -set Stephen Mackenzie on a remarkable adventure....
Putting nature on the payroll at Wiston Estate
Wiston Estate in West Sussex has employed its first full-time ecologist, funded entirely through income from one of the UK’s earliest private Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) transactions. The appointment marks a significant evolution in how rural estates are embedding...
Data sharpens strategy for English wine producer MDCV
A new demographic insight tool developed by Knight Frank’s viticulture consultancy is helping one of the UK’s largest wine producers unlock new growth opportunities in direct-to-consumer sales, tourism and winery site development. MDCV farms over 2,000 acres...
Knight Frank survey shows rural estates struggling to attract talent despite pay rises
Rural estates are facing persistent difficulty in attracting and keeping the right people, according to Knight Frank’s 2025 Estate Staff Salary Survey. Despite a decade of steady wage increases across rural roles and nearly universal annual pay reviews, 87% of estates...
Ringlink (Scotland) Ltd and Highland Business Services Ring Ltd to merge
Two of Scotland’s machinery rings, Laurencekirk based Ringlink (Scotland) Ltd and Inverness based Highland Business Services Ltd (HBS), have today announced plans to merge their activities. The merger between the two cooperatives will substantially strengthen the...
Rural needs resilience, not waiting games
James Farrell, Head of Rural and Partner at Knight Frank, sets out why estates and farms need to adopt a more business-minded approach, the central theme of the Spring/Summer edition of the firm’s flagship Rural Report. The scale of change facing the...
The possibilities are endless: Groundswell Festival’s 250+ sessions cover every angle
Now in its ninth year, Groundswell – The Regenerative Agriculture Festival – returns bigger than ever with over 400 speakers and more than 250 sessions across two days, 2-3 July at Lannock Manor Farm in Hertfordshire. From environmental farm business tenancies and...