2026

Climate change continues to create challenges for British farms but sometimes the weather turns just in time and you have lots of happy farmers!

There have been varied reports from the 2025/26 season on the potential challenges that shoots have faced.

Joe Stanley was in the auditorium on 24 February for Secretary of State Emma Reynolds’ address to the National Farmers Union’s annual conference in Birmingham.

2026 sees the GWCT’s Big Farmland Bird Count return to its spiritual home of the Allerton Project, the GWCT’s research and demonstration farm on the Leicestershire-Rutland border, where it was originally launched in 2014.