Arable

There has never a better time to let farmers support your mental and physical health and for all of us to support a green recovery from Covid-19, according to Caroline Millar,Agritourism Monitor Farm programme co-ordinator.

A deal which will see Berwick-on-Tweed based Simpsons Malt acquire the entire grain merchanting business of WN Lindsay will create a giant in the malting barley sector.

GB potato lifting is coming to an end with an estimated 96 per cent of the harvest complete by November 10.

What a difference a few days of sunshine can make. In the east, October was the second dullest of all time, and one of the rainiest too. But November has dawned, skies are blue and the fields are fit.

Until 2011, Red Hall Farm was home to a herd of dairy cows, but fast forward to present day and it is a very different product which is now being sold off the farm. Katie Jones reports.

Wales’ farmers can capitalise on growing demand for the Welsh food brand, but investment is needed to shorten supply chains and make the sector truly sustainable, NFU Cymru’s annual conference heard. 

After one of the most tumultuous US elections in decades, Alex Black asks what what impact President Elect Joe Biden could have on US agriculture and a US/UK trade deal

November/December 2020 Arable Farming Issue

If Scottish farmers are to address the climate emergency, they need guarantees that they will not be undercut by cheap, environmentally damaging imports from abroad, says John Finnie, Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands.

Ministers have finally given Parliament more power to scrutinise trade deals, but the Parliament which will be scrutinising is the same Tory-majority one which has voted time and again not to protect our standards. I am not popping the champagne cork just yet, says Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron.