Transition

Johann Tasker

Johann Tasker
Editor, Transition

Welcome to Transition – the Farmers Weekly initiative to secure a more financially and environmentally sustainable future for your farm business.

Farmers are first and foremost food producers. But these days, growers and livestock producers do much more too – and generate an income from it.

Many are working to improve biodiversity, soil health, air and water quality – and storing carbon to help mitigate the impact of climate change.

By pooling all our knowledge, the Farmers Weekly Transition hub aims to show how this can be achieved – and the pitfalls that should be avoided.

We are grateful to our Transition Farmers and to our Transition Partners who have agreed to share their experiences, expertise and advice.

Latest from Transition

NEWS

Cautious welcome for SFS but BPS reduction will bite

The Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), launched a week before the Royal Welsh Show, was cautiously welcomed, but farming leaders warned that next year’s 40% Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) cut will…

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

On-farm data capture project a environmental 'game changer'

British agriculture’s environmental performance is frequently exposed to damaging criticism and misinformation. But the AHDB Environmental Baselining project has set out to change that. It aims to provide the industry…

STAFF MANAGEMENT

8 tips to help you recruit the right farm staff

Employee recruitment and retention is tough across agriculture, from large farming estates to smaller family farms. From the generational shift to workers seeking non-manual work, together with the sometimes unsociable…

AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION

Transition Farmer: Climate goals not far off completion

There is often a big gulf between possessing an ambition to instigate change in a farming system and applying it, but Andrew McFadzean has more or less fully achieved the…

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

How sustainable farming is central to Raby Estate's business

Attention to detail has been critical as Raby Estate has changed direction and set about creating a more robust and commercially viable business, with an environmentally sustainable farming enterprise at…

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Our Transition Farmers - follow them on their journey

Our Transition Partner Network

AB Agri

AB Agri

Agreena

Agreena

Agri-Tech Centres

Agri-Tech Centres

Anglian Water

Bright Seeds

Catchment Sensitive Farming

Catchment Sensitive Farming

Claydon

Claydon

Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

Environment Bank

Environment Bank

Frontier

Frontier

GSC Grays

GSC Grays

Hutchinsons

Hutchinsons

KW

KW

Lantra

LEAF

LEAF

Lightsource BP

Lightsource BP

Natural England

Natural England

NFFN

Omex

Omex

School of Sustainable Farming

School of Sustainable Farming

SHMA

Strutt & Parker

Strutt & Parker

Tiah

Tilhilll Forestry

Tilhill Forestry

Woodland Trust

Woodland Trust

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