Duchy Farmer Named Dairy Innovator of 2015
Duchy Farmer Named Dairy Innovator of 2015
A former Duchy Scholar has been named Dairy Innovator of the Year at the 2015 British Farming Awards. Mark Verity has lived on the Duchy’s Whitewell estate in Lancashire all his life and in recent years has been gradually taking over responsibility for the 700-acreRadholme Laund farm from his father, Stuart. In 2010, Mark attended […]
Staffordshire Farms Supporting Sustainability
With the support of the Duchy of Lancaster, tenant farmers across Staffordshire are embracing new and sustainable energy sources. Green biomass systems and the generation of electricity from photovoltaic (PV) panels are just two of the measures introduced on Duchy farms in 2015. Two of the larger farms on the Needwood Estate – Coton Hall […]
Duchy to invest in new £2m model farm for Cloughton
The Duchy of Lancaster is continuing to invest in the future of agriculture, pledging around £1.6m to develop a £2m purpose-built model farm on a greenfield site near Scarborough. Tenant farmer Joe Green has lived and worked at the Duchy of Lancaster’s Town Farm in the village of Cloughton all of his life, just as […]