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Transition webinars
A practical webinar series helping to secure a sustainable future for your farm business
Transition Live
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Transition newsletter
Stay up to date by with our weekly Transition newsletter as well as our other weekly roundups
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Lambing 2024
Question Time
Series two has come to an end after four incredible events over the last few months, and now we would like to hear from you on what you want from Series three.
A comprehensive guide to female-friendly recruitment
This guide looks at evidence showing how making the farming industry more equitable for women can bring advantages to your business.
Farmers Weekly Learning Centre
The Farmers Weekly Learning Centre is where you can improve your career prospects and agricultural knowledge through online courses. Browse our growing library to find a course that will help you brush up on a subject area or learn about a new one as part of a continuing personal development (CPD) plan.
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- Test your knowledge
- Gain CPD points
- Career development
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Events
Alternative Land Uses: Agroforestry
This live event takes place at Elston Farm in Devon, with the Woodland Trust and farmer Andy Gray.
The livestock farm has a three-year old agroforestry project.
Andy will demonstrate the benefits it has brought to his farm and we'll give advice on incorporating a forestry project into your farm and the help available.
Private money for public goods
This webinar in our Transition series looks at ways farmers can access opportunities in the private sector to help deliver the government's environmental goals for agriculture.
In detail, we will examine:
- Reviewing the farm business and earmarking assets
- How to monetise assets - carbon credits and biodiversity net gain
- Marketing the assets and identifying potential private partners
- Contracts and legalities
Transition Live
Working side by side, as an industry, our goal is the same as yours: a sustainable future for British agriculture and for your farm.
The event will bring together farmers, policymakers and key industry experts for a day of education, collaboration and networking.
Alternative Land Uses: Renewable energy
This event at Larport solar farm covers the benefits of on-site generation, such as hosting a solar project on your land.
Information will include:
- What options are available, from rooftop solar panels to hosting a large-scale solar site
- How to mitigate revenue risk
- How to export excess energy to increase income generation
Family farming partnerships
This Business Clinic webinar offers advice and information on what to consider when setting up a family partnership, including:
- Bringing in a new member
- What happens when a partner retires or dies
- Having the right written agreement in place
Turn spare-land into a self-storage business
Self storage provides a great way to secure extra revenue from your land. Cleveland Containers is on hand to give expert advice in this webinar.
We cover :
SFI & carbon: Generating new sources of income
The second webinar of the series will give an overview of the current Sustainable Farming Incentive offering, its integration, what you need to know for 2024 and a live example of an application process.
To watch the first webinar on carbon, catch up on demand: fwi.co.uk/sfi-carbon-income
Measuring success – improving farm business performance
In this Transition webinar, our expert panel will suggest areas to work on to improve farm business performance and how success can be measured. Key areas will be:
- Improving productivity
- Using technology to improve performance
- Make the most from what you’ve got
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