Farming in Five: Key themes for the rural sector in 2026, farming dates to look out for this year and a new year means it is a good time to review farm insurance policies. 

Farming in Five: Looking back on a turbulent year of tractor protests, political stonewalling and support scheme uncertainty. 

Farming in Five: Clarkson’s Farm most memorable moments, egg sector targets families with £1.5m health food campaign and UFU president says, 'Farming is a way of life worth fighting for'.

Farming in Five: Fighting the winter blues, the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust's 2025 funding delivers more than £1.2m to good causes and the King honours historic university's deputy vice-chancellor for services to animal welfare. 

Farming in Five: Farmers produce Christmas showcase in unpredictable year, winning Christmas Tree Grower of the Year accolade was 'good for morale' after tough growing season and coloured veg demand booms.

Farming in Five: IHT thresholds to be raised in pre-Christmas 'miracle' for family farms, NFU campaign secures 2026 tax delay win and a new cross-party group forms to promote the benefits of agroecology. 

Farming in Five: Study claims 50 million sprouts will be binned this Christmas, NFU Scotland calls for urgent action as dairy crisis deepens, farmers help revive turtle dove numbers and the industry reacts to Governments 'biggest animal welfare...

Farming in Five: Farmers urge Government to address power imbalance between supermarkets and growers, heroic farmers deserve dedicated fund for efforts in tackling rural wildfires, MP claims, Government announces 'biggest animal welfare reforms...

Farming in Five: Moredun ramps up disease support for UK livestock farmers, Baroness Minette Batters' Farm Profitability Review: New Farming and Food Partnership Board launched, and the industry reacts as review published and the long overdue l...

Farming in Five: Farmer found dead after reversing tractor into pond, the industry reacts to new planning proposals which aim to prioritise farm builds and rural business, environmental reps walk away from Scottish Gov's 'failed' farming policy...

Farming in Five: Trump signs Executive Order to support farmers impacted by 'unfair market disruptions', Farming Minister confirms Baroness Batters' report will be released in 'matter of days', family farms are 'collateral damage' without Gov r...

Farming in Five: Farm School helps to inspire more than 1,200 children to connect with farming and the countryside, Defra unveils first £2.3m tech fund roll-out, around 75% of farmers receive stewardship support payment, Starmer meets with NFU ...

Farming in Five: Yellow Wellies chair James Chapman steps down from board, Clarkson says farmers can overcome 'anti-farming' Government, consumers warned to 'beware' following EU recall of Brazilian beef and abstaining from IHT vote sent Gov 'p...

Farming in Five: Farmers take part in a tractor run in 'Clarkson county' aiming to raise £100k for charity, there is 'no excuse' for unfair Northern Irish lamb price, hundreds of churches are at risk of closure in farming communities over the n...

Farming in Five: Nearly three quarters of rural residents believe politicians do not understand the needs of the countryside, the transport Committee welcomes future support for rural bus services, the supply chain fairness review has been anno...

Farming in Five: A Spanish laboratory could be the source of ASF outbreak, there is pressure on Defra to phase out farrowing crates in upcoming Animal Welfare Strategy and record November rainfall has brought relief for drought-hit farmers.&nbs...

NFU Mutual have called for drivers to take a rural road awareness course after it was revealed almost 10,000 people have been killed on countryside roads since 2015, there will be no cattle classes held at the Royal Ulster Winter Fair due to bl...

Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron praises neighbouring MP Markus Campbell-Savours and says there is an opportunity in the new year to genuinely defeat the family farm tax. In the dairy sector, there are no green shoots of recovery yet for milk pri...

Farming in Five: Labour remove whip from MP for voting against the family farm tax, 82,000 schoolchildren learn about farming's crucial role at Christmas, NFUS says IHT has left elderly and terminally ill farmers facing an 'intolerable and inhu...

Farming in Five: The BBC removed a 'misleading' pig farming clip after a formal complaint, Wales is to develop a regional diagnostic centre, a minority of Labour MPs backed farmers by rebelling against Gov's Autumn Budget IHT changes and new re...

Farming in Five: Bluetongue suspected in two cows at NI farm, one of UK's oldest John Deere dealers announces Christmas Eve closure for Llanllwni depot, £500 million to be allocated to the future of Landscape Recovery projects across the countr...

Farming in Five: New raw cane sugar ATQ brings further unwelcome uncertainty to homegrown sugar beet growers says NFU Sugar, Shadow Defra Secretary writes concerns to Met Police regarding its handling of Budget protests, Arla and Muller confirm...

Farming in Five: Financial and legal experts analyse the Chancellors Budget and over 500 tractors were believed to have attended the protests despite the police banning them the night before.

Farming in Five: The Chancellor's Budget failed to deliver a U-turn on Inheritance tax but introduced a 100% rate of relief to be transferable between spouses and the farmers were arrested during peaceful Budget day protests. 

Farming in Five: What to expect from the Autumn Budget 2025, and individual has been arrested in connection with Kidlington illegal waste dumping and a new crime strategy set to target rural offenders