Farm Business

The size of the spring flush will be the key factor for milk prices in the UK later this year, with global dairy markets also under pressure.

Rural groups have warned the Government is still ‘failing to understand the rural economy’ as Defra announced a further £110 million in funding.

UK tractor sales have shown a marked increase, with the highest single-month figure since 2009.

MPs are set to debate controversial plans to significantly limit grazing on Dartmoor, following claims Natural England is attempting to rewild the iconic landscape ’by the backdoor’.

Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader Humza Yousaf has had a turbulent first week in office.

Thousands of Environment Agency workers in England are to strike for a further a four days over pay later this month, following weeks of disruption as staff opted out of ‘on call’ duties.

With tough economic circumstances weighing on the residential property market, Alex Black spoke to property experts to find out whether the impact was being felt on farmland.

Alex Phillips is a partner and head of the agriculture and rural affairs division at law firm mfg Solicitors.

Farmers are being offered £44 million to help tackle pollution, as part of the Government’s new £1.6 billion Plan for Water.

Increasingly tighter supplies are driving pig prices to new record highs, but European price progression has slowed.