Chris Hill

Agricultural editor

Chris Hill is the agricultural editor for the Eastern Daily Press and its Agricultural Review supplement - covering farming, food, the environment and other countryside issues across Norfolk and Suffolk. Winner of the 2022 Timothy Colman Prize, presented by the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA) for outstanding contribution to Norfolk’s food, farming and countryside, and twice winner of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists’ Stuart Seaton award for regional agricultural journalists.

Chris Hill is the agricultural editor for the Eastern Daily Press and its Agricultural Review supplement - covering farming, food, the environment and other countryside issues across Norfolk and Suffolk. Winner of the 2022 Timothy Colman Prize, presented by the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA) for outstanding contribution to Norfolk’s food, farming and countryside, and twice winner of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists’ Stuart Seaton award for regional agricultural journalists.

Latest articles from Chris Hill

Caroline Steggles, vice chairman of the Clan Trust

Norfolk charity ramps up support for farming youth and innovation
Norfolk-based agricultural charity the Clan Trust has stepped up its financial support for young people, farming innovation and rural communities.

The UEA is working with partners at the University of Plymouth to trial soil sensors mounted on autonomous robots as part of the £4m LUNZ OpenLAND project

Soil-sensing farm robots to be deployed in £4m UEA 'net zero' project

Soil-sensing robots will be deployed in the UEA's £4m OpenLAND project, exploring new farmland management strategies to help hit "net zero" and biodiversity targets.

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Brothers Quentin and Bev Spratt at their family farm in Tacolneston

Family farms weigh their options after inheritance tax bombshell

Norfolk family farms are weighing their options as they anxiously await answers from the government in the wake of its controversial inheritance tax raid.

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The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) held its agricultural transition roadshow at Elveden Village Hall

Farmers seek answers on agricultural policy at a time of 'great uncertainty'

Farmers and landowners gathered in Elveden for a CLA roadshow giving insights on agricultural policy during "a time of great uncertainty" for their industry.

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UEA student Liz Allocca receiving her award from the Rt Rev Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich

UEA student who moved from New York to Norwich wins bishop's ecology prize

An American songbird called the western yellow-breasted chat has helped UEA student Liz Allocca win this year’s Bishop of Norwich Prize for Ecology.

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Norfolk has become a major hotspot for solar farm applications. Pictured are Norfolk County Council leader Kay Mason Billig and Ed Blundy of rural agency Brown&Co

Massive solar farm boom ignites debate over competing demands for Norfolk farmland

Norfolk's massive solar farm boom has ignited debate over the balance between food production and green energy on the county's farmland.

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Chris Solt, agricultural partner at Norfolk-based accountancy firm Lovewell Blake

Inheritance tax cloud could hold a silver lining for farms, says finance expert

A renewed focus on succession planning and innovation driven by a younger generation could be a "silver lining" to the tax cloud looming over farms, claims a Lovewell Blake finance expert.

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Glenn Anderson, strategy lead for the Wendling Beck Environment Project, with his daughter Phoebe

Inheritance tax fears for rural families and their long-term nature legacy

Landowners working on the Wendling Beck Environment Project in Norfolk fear new inheritance tax rules will hit their families - and their environmental legacy.

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David Jones, farm manager at Morley Farms near Wymondham, which is one of four AHDB Strategic Cereal Farms

Norfolk farm is at the cutting edge of strategic crop research
Morley Farms near Wymondham, which has grown into a national beacon for agricultural research, is hosting strategic trials to solve crop pest, disease and nutrition problems.