For a few dark days in summer 2022, England’s new Environmental Land Management scheme (ELMs) looked like it might be a casualty of Liz Truss’s bonfire. A coalition of farming...
About Emily Norton
Golden Oldie
What’s the beef with regenerative agriculture?
Originally published March 2021. This newly trendy approach is not just environmentally and consumer friendly, it’s practical too – and at root it’s as old as the hills....
The Analyst
Brexit won’t hurt land values
CAP subsidies aren’t why farmland prices rose, so removing them won’t reverse that. My favourite Savills Rural Research graph is the one that has tracked land values in the UK...
The Analyst
Cheap cheep: in praise of chlorinated chicken
The UK needs a more nuanced approach to agricultural trade – let’s ditch the kneejerk reactions, for a start. I argued for Brexit. Don’t get me wrong: I could see the arguments...
My World 2021
The agricultural/rural head of research
My World: June 2021... This is part of a series of articles where our contributors describe how they think things will look a year from now. An increased focus on food supply and...
The Farmer
What climate targets mean for land values
Farmers will gain new opportunities from carbon offsetting, which will change how land is used and valued Investors are increasingly familiar with the concept of stranded assets:...