Growing Rural Enterprise

07/09/2026

We will be here promoting our new Tamworth course based at Secret Haven Cafe. Pop and make a Corn Dolly with us! Free Spider Plant babies too!

06/09/2026

🚜🌾 LICHFIELD & DISTRICT ANNUAL PLOUGHING MATCH 2026 🌾🚜

Another date for your September diary!

The Lichfield & District Annual Ploughing Match takes place on Sunday 13th September, with a full day celebrating agricultural skills both old and new.

🚜 Ploughing from 9.30am
🌿 Hedge laying & mechanical hedge cutting
🐴 Horse ploughing demonstration
🚜 Trailer rides
🍴 Food
🍺 Licensed bar
🏆 Prize giving at 3.30pm

📅 Sunday 13th September 2026
📍 Walsall Road, Lichfield, WS13 8JW
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The event is a fundraiser in support of the Staffordshire & Birmingham Agricultural Society, so come along, enjoy the day and support one of our District events.

🌐 For more information about our District Ploughing & Hedgelaying Matches, visit our dedicated webpage:
District Ploughing & Hedgelaying Matches

Please share and help us spread the word! 🌾

03/09/2026

Applications for RABI’s £2,000 emergency drought grant opens next week, starting with the South West on 7 September.

The grants are available to eligible farm owners and tenant farmers whose principal farming business is in an area officially designated as being in drought.

📍 Applications open at 12 noon on:

7 September: South West
14 September: Wales
21 September: South East
28 September: East
5 October: Midlands

The grant is designed to provide rapid financial support towards personal and household expenditure where drought-related pressures have contributed to financial pressure.

Each regional phase has an allocated amount of funding and may close earlier if that funding is fully committed.

Check your eligibility and find out more: https://rabi.org.uk/drought-support/

02/09/2026

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30/08/2026

30/08/2026

Fabulous couple of days at Up Willow and Fibre Festival with a group of WELLIES volunteers, passing on the traditional craft of corn dollys to visitors. Volunteers did a great job helping and encouraging people to have a go and telling them the history behind the craft. They enjoyed talking to people from California, Canada, Ireland, France, Japan, Belgium, Ireland and Scotland as well as some from just down the road. A great experience and inspiration. Well done Tear Up - Willow & Fibre Festival for having the vision and making it happen.

28/08/2026

RABI has launched a £2M Emergency Drought Grant programme to provide £2,000 grants towards personal and household expenditure for eligible farm owners and tenant farmers experiencing significant financial pressure as a result of the impact of drought across England and Wales.

28/08/2026

Holiday highlights. British Isles Cruise Wendy Haines Travel

28/08/2026

NFU Poultry Board Chair Will Raw explains why the recent Salmonella outbreak is about more than just a single incident.

The outbreak linked to imported eggs, alongside growing concerns over Brazilian poultry imports, highlights a wider issue: the UK still lacks a robust system of core production standards for imported food.

Read more in our latest blog (link in comments👇)

22/08/2026