Arable

A lack of options in the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme threatens to wipe out upland farming in the UK, with generations of family farms now in peril as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) winds down.

US CBOT wheat futures dropped to their lowest level in over two years while pressures on oilseeds markets have only been enhanced by the fall in crude oil

The British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) has published payment rates for farmed saved seed.

Soaring temperatures and drought conditions are causing major concerns for Spanish farmers.

Where crops have been planted into cloddy seedbeds, slug risk will be high and potato producers are urged to protect against the pest as soon as tubers reach golf ball size.

Grain and oilseed markets are currently focusing on fundamental drivers, rather than geopolitics, but the situation in Ukraine will remain a key watchpoint in the weeks approaching harvest.

With food prices continuing to be a driver of overall UK inflation, Cedric Porter takes a look at the difference between retail price and farmgate.

Hopes that the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Scheme could be extended beyond six months or be adopted as a five-year rolling programme have been dashed by the Home Office.