Prisoners could help alleviate the food processing sector’s staffing crisis following the Home Office’s advice to ’prioritise the investment and development of the UK’s domestic labour force’.

Processors have been urged not to pass escalating costs down the line to farmers who are already experiencing inflationary price pressures.

Tens of thousands of pigs are backing up on UK farms as processors cut slaughter numbers due to a lack of staff to butcher and process them.

The processor has announced it will drop its milk price from September 1 2021 by 0.90ppl in light of rising inflation costs. 

Tributes have been paid to popular Beltex breeder and Scottish livestock farmer Jim Kennedy, who has died at the age of 61.

Moy Park has achieved the UK’s first soya Chain of Custody Standard for its soyabean traceability, spear-headed by its feed mill in Northern Ireland and raw material sourcing team.

Farms are not parks or playgrounds and must be treated with caution like any other workplace, industry chiefs have warned.

No child should die as a result of failure to control risk on GB farms, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) principal inspector Wayne Owen has said.

A wild camper who threatened to shoot a farmers husband when challenged for having his dog off a lead on farmland has pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening and abusive manner.

Writtle University College has launched a new MBA in Regenerative Food Systems and is accepting applications for autumn 2021.