This week, farmers report delays receiving payments from soil carbon scheme Agreena – with some growers saying they are owed thousands of pounds.

We examine the latest Farm Assurance Review and ask whether Red Tractor and other schemes can deliver fairer treatment for UK grain producers facing competition from unassured imports.

We review Harvest, the new book by former NFU president Baroness Minette Batters.

And we visit the Green Farm Collective’s Soil to Slice conference in Harrogate, where farmers, millers, wholesalers and bakers are working together to build more value into regenerative supply chains.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and headlines
00:51 Agreena payment delays spark farmer frustration
09:40 Farm Assurance Review – what happens next?
19:56 Minette Batters’ new book Harvest
25:29 Sugar beet with a clover understorey
28:33 Rural crime falls by 21%
33:53 Markets: lamb breaks £9/kg, diesel dips below £1/litre
36:48 Soil to Slice: building value through regenerative supply chains
47:15 Podcast wrap-up

Guests

* George Dunn, Chief Executive, Tenant Farmers Association
* Michael Kavanagh, Green Farm Collective
* Verity Megginson, Yorkshire regenerative farmer
* Natalia Spinetto, Director of Impact & Strategy, Collective Food
* George Herbert, Hobbs House Bakery

Useful links

* Agreena
* Tenant Farmers Association
* Red Tractor Assurance
* Green Farm Collective
* Collectiv Food
* Hobbs House Bakery

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