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Reflections from 🇦🇺 Australia(What happens when soil health becomes a survival strategy...)

Following my last update (https://t.ly/tVJwY) on the Corry Review, here's a look at two big recent updates for Wales:

The DEFRA-commissioned Corry Review landed earlier this week, and Environment Secretary Steve Reed has indicated DEFRA

Insights and analysis on the SFI progress update from DEFRA for the final months of 2024 and looking forward into 2025

Read on for my initial take:

Tom reflects on the importance of grower groups in Australian agriculture and announces his upcoming antipodean trip

Tom reflects on Dan Neidle's excellent article discussing changes to farm IHT.

Tom dives into the latest stats for the Sustainable Farming Incentive

🚨 📢 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - re the Farmer Rally in London tomorrow from Soil Benchmark Ahead of the farmer #rally in London

🤯🏆Eeeek… we only went and won the Santander X Award!!!There were some brilliant pitches from really fantastic startups yesterday

For those of you in a rush who - like me - didn't have a chance to watch the budget or read through the accompanying documents, don't worry!

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🤓 DEEP-DIVE ALERT 🤓: The way we use land is changing rapidly - just like it did in the 16th Century.

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📈 📊 SFI UPDATE: How much has been spent on SFI according to newly released DEFRA figures? ... 🤓🚨

Key insights from a packed two weeks in 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 for my Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust research:

Driving (literally 🚛 ) Soil Health: Lessons from Northern Europe (I'll explain these in a bit more detail below) ❤️ Changing behaviour is about passion first, knowledge second

Update from DEFRA on take-up of SFI23. Read on for a deep dive 🕵♂️ into the options the 13,900 farmers who have signed up for SFI23 so far have selected...