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A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture,raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops,orchards,vineyards,poultry,or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmland or might work as a laborer on land owned by others. In most developed economies,a "farmer" is usually a farm owner (landowner),while employees of the farm are known as farm workers. However,in other older definitions a farmer was a person who promotes or improves the growth of plants,land,or crops or raises animals by labor and attention.
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops;it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialized units such as arable farms,vegetable farms,fruit farms,dairy,pig and poultry farms,and land used for the production of natural fiber,biofuel,and other commodities. It includes ranches,feedlots,orchards,plantations and estates,smallholdings,and hobby farms,and includes the farmhouse and agricultural buildings as well as the land. In modern times,the term has been extended so as to include such industrial operations as wind farms and fish farms,both of which can operate on land or at sea.
Corporate farming is the practice of large-scale agriculture on farms owned or greatly influenced by large companies. This includes corporate ownership of farms and the sale of agricultural products,as well as the roles of these companies in influencing agricultural education,research,and public policy through funding initiatives and lobbying efforts.
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) is an employer association representing farming and growing businesses within England and Wales.
Charles Henry Plumb,Baron Plumb,was a British politician and farmer who went into politics as a leader of the National Farmers' Union. He later became active in the Conservative Party and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He served as an MEP from 1979 to 1999,and was President of the European Parliament from 1987 to 1989,the only Briton to hold the post.
Federated Farmers of New Zealand is a lobby and advocacy group for all farmers:arable including fruit and vegetables,dairy and meat and their often remote communities. It has a network of 24 regional organisations and six industry groups. Federated Farmers lobbies on farming issues both nationally and within each region. Membership of the organisation is voluntary,and at 2021 it has over 13,000 members.
National Farmers Union is a national federation of state Farmers Union organizations in the United States. The organization was founded in 1902 in Point,Texas,and is headquartered in Washington,D.C.. The organization was created to protect and enhance the economic well-being and quality of life for family farmers,ranchers,and their rural communities by promoting legislation and education beneficial to farmers,and developing cooperative buying and selling methods and businesses. NFU advocates for the sustainable production of food,fiber,feed,and fuel. The current president is Rob Larew,and the vice president is Jeff Kippley. Former NFU Presidents have included Roger Johnson,Tom Buis,and David Frederickson.
NFU Mutual is a UK insurance composite. As a mutual,its policyholder members own the business,and the executives and directors are accountable to them. The full name of the organisation is National Farmers' Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited.
The National Farmers' Union of Scotland is an employer association organisation that represents the interests of the Scotland's farming industry. It was formed in 1913,and has approximately 10,000 members who are farmers,crofters and others involved in Scottish agriculture.
Farmers Guide is the UK's leading monthly farming magazine,providing the English agricultural industry with advertising both for its readers and their suppliers. Farmers Guide is a family-owned publishing business. Founded in 1979 Farmers Guide was initially mailed free and direct to farmers and agricultural contractors in Suffolk,Norfolk,Essex and Cambs. It is now national and is mailed free and direct to 30,000+ farmers,decision-makers,contractors and suppliers across the UK. With a huge,growing digital presence and providing free FarmAds for every agricultural reader.
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Nocton Dairies is a British company which was formed by Devon farmer and cheese-maker Peter Willes and Lancashire milk producer David Barnes in order to construct an 8,100-cow dairy at Nocton Heath in Lincolnshire,objectors to which claimed that it would have been the largest in Western Europe.
Assured Food Standards is a United Kingdom company which licenses the Red Tractor quality mark,a farm assurance programme for food products,animal feed and fertiliser. Multiple cases of animal abuse have been reported on Red Tractor assured farms.
The Farmers’Union of Wales (FUW),known as the Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru (UAC) in Welsh,is a member organisation that was formed in 1955 to represent farmers in Wales.
Agriculture in Wales has in the past been a major part of the economy of Wales,a largely rural country which is part of the United Kingdom. Wales is mountainous and has a mild,wet climate. This results in only a small proportion of the land area being suitable for arable cropping,but grass for the grazing of livestock is present in abundance. As a proportion of the national economy,agriculture is now much less important;a high proportion of the population now live in the towns and cities in the south of the country and tourism has become an important form of income in the countryside and on the coast. Arable cropping is limited to the flatter parts and elsewhere dairying and livestock farming predominate.
Women were historically rarely farm owners in agriculture in the United Kingdom,but the number who own or lease farms is rising rapidly in the 21st century;by 2013 there were 25,000.
Minette Bridget Batters,Baroness Batters,,is a British farmer who was the president of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales from 2018 to 2024. She has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024.
Clarkson's Farm is a British television documentary series about Jeremy Clarkson and his farm in the Cotswolds. The series documents Clarkson's attempts at running a 1,000-acre (400 ha) farm near Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire. Described by Clarkson as "genuine reality television",the series has received positive reviews and has been praised for raising public awareness of the British farming industry on the international stage. The first series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 11 June 2021.
Farmers' suicides in the United States refers to the instances of American farmers taking their own lives,largely since the 1980s,partly due to their falling into debt,but as a larger mental-health crisis among U.S. agriculture workers. In the Midwest alone,over 1,500 farmers have taken their own lives since the 1980s. It mirrors a crisis happening globally:in Australia,a farmer dies by suicide every four days;in the United Kingdom,one farmer a week takes their own life,in France it is one every two days. More than 270,000 farmers have died by suicide since 1995 in India.
In November 2024,protests were organised by farmer organisations in London against new inheritance tax laws on agricultural land. The measures were included in the October 2024 budget of the Labour government,resulting in thousands of British farmers protesting in Parliament Square and addressing MPs directly in parliament.
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- ↑ National Farmers Union, "Mass lobby – NFU President's speech in full", 19 November 2024. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- ↑ Daily Telegraph, "Farmers’ pension plans at risk from Chancellor’s inheritance tax raid", 18 November 2024. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- ↑ Independent, "Farming inheritance tax changes ‘straw that broke camel’s back’ – NFU chief", 18 November 2024. Retrieved 20 November 2024.