Andrew Nowell
@andrewnowell.bsky.social
Press officer for the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN), former journalist in Manchester and Wigan.
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🎧 NFFN’s Claire Beaumont chats bale grazing on the Farmers Guardian podcast - covering livestock and soil health & farm savings. Packed with tips for nature-friendly farming. 👉 Tune in here: tinyurl.com/b48p8dtj
Bale grazing can offer livestock farmers a host of benefits but requires careful planning
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April 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🎧 NFFN’s Claire Beaumont chats bale grazing on the Farmers Guardian podcast - covering livestock and soil health & farm savings. Packed with tips for nature-friendly farming. 👉 Tune in here: tinyurl.com/b48p8dtj
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Great op-ed by our CEO, Martin Lines, on the SFI closure. 👇
Wrote this for @farmersguardian.bsky.social - 🚜 Defra’s sudden SFI closure has left farmers stranded, exposing how fragile farm support is. With no new scheme until 2026, many face tough choices. 🌾 @nffn is calling for an interim scheme-farmers can’t wait 18 months! ⏳ Govt must act now is.gd/MA7YYd
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Mr Lines, chief executive of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, writes about Defra’s sudden SFI closure, how farm support payments are 'failing' farmers, the urgent action needed and why farmers can...
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March 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Great op-ed by our CEO, Martin Lines, on the SFI closure. 👇
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✨We’re at Farmers Weekly’s Transition Live! Join us for a day of knowledge-exchange & networking around food production, environment and business. 💚 NFFN Members go FREE! Sign up & get your code in our next newsletter.
📢 Book now: www.fwi.co.uk/sp/tra...
📢 Book now: www.fwi.co.uk/sp/tra...
March 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
✨We’re at Farmers Weekly’s Transition Live! Join us for a day of knowledge-exchange & networking around food production, environment and business. 💚 NFFN Members go FREE! Sign up & get your code in our next newsletter.
📢 Book now: www.fwi.co.uk/sp/tra...
📢 Book now: www.fwi.co.uk/sp/tra...
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Defra has announced that the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) will no longer accept new applications, with no new offer available until spring 2026. This leaves many farmers facing an 18-month gap before fresh SFI payments arrive, creating significant financial uncertainty...
March 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Defra has announced that the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) will no longer accept new applications, with no new offer available until spring 2026. This leaves many farmers facing an 18-month gap before fresh SFI payments arrive, creating significant financial uncertainty...
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Ruth Ashton-Shaw farms in Dumfries & Galloway 🌿
Despite her expertise, she still faces skepticism: “One of the most infuriating things I encounter is people asking to speak to my husband or my dad.”
Hear how Ruth is proving that women belong in farming 👉 ow.ly/gcLf50V9hlW
#IWD2025
Despite her expertise, she still faces skepticism: “One of the most infuriating things I encounter is people asking to speak to my husband or my dad.”
Hear how Ruth is proving that women belong in farming 👉 ow.ly/gcLf50V9hlW
#IWD2025
March 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Ruth Ashton-Shaw farms in Dumfries & Galloway 🌿
Despite her expertise, she still faces skepticism: “One of the most infuriating things I encounter is people asking to speak to my husband or my dad.”
Hear how Ruth is proving that women belong in farming 👉 ow.ly/gcLf50V9hlW
#IWD2025
Despite her expertise, she still faces skepticism: “One of the most infuriating things I encounter is people asking to speak to my husband or my dad.”
Hear how Ruth is proving that women belong in farming 👉 ow.ly/gcLf50V9hlW
#IWD2025
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Great to chat with the team at @carboncopyeco.bsky.social on the Farm With Nature podcast. Always good to have honest conversations about the challenges farmers face and the role we play in tackling the climate and nature crisis 🌍.
You can find it here: carboncopy.eco/podcasts/far...
You can find it here: carboncopy.eco/podcasts/far...
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February 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Great to chat with the team at @carboncopyeco.bsky.social on the Farm With Nature podcast. Always good to have honest conversations about the challenges farmers face and the role we play in tackling the climate and nature crisis 🌍.
You can find it here: carboncopy.eco/podcasts/far...
You can find it here: carboncopy.eco/podcasts/far...
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Originally discouraged from farming, Sam traveled and rediscovered her passion in New Zealand 🐑. Now at Glanllyn Farm, she swapped maize for livestock, upgraded water systems, sowed herbal leys & began rotational grazing for resilience.
Read her story here👉www.nffn.org.uk/farm...
Read her story here👉www.nffn.org.uk/farm...
February 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Originally discouraged from farming, Sam traveled and rediscovered her passion in New Zealand 🐑. Now at Glanllyn Farm, she swapped maize for livestock, upgraded water systems, sowed herbal leys & began rotational grazing for resilience.
Read her story here👉www.nffn.org.uk/farm...
Read her story here👉www.nffn.org.uk/farm...