Farm Business

As Ukraine marks one year since the Russian invasion, Cedric Porter looks at the ripple effect it has had throughout agriculture.

The UK and the EU have reached a new deal over post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, which the Prime Minister says will deliver the ’smooth flow of trade’.

A leading horticulture body has hit out at supermarkets saying that retailers’ failure to back British growers over the winter has directly led to empty shelves and rationing.

The Scottish seed potato sector has experienced mixed fortunes this season with exports being easier but the domestic market remaining hesitant.

NFU president Minette Batters was entirely right when she told delegates on the first morning of her union’s conference that Government’s seemingly blase attitude towards food production needed exposing for what it was, naive.

The first two phases of the £62m International Barley Hub at the James Hutton Institute (JHI) have been completed and are in use.

The SNP leadership race is taking shape with none of the three candidates announced so far having an obvious link with farming.

A Leading horticulture body has hit out at supermarkets saying that retailers’ failure to back British growers over the winter has led directly to empty shelves and rationing.

Badger culling has to be part of the strategy to combat bovine TB, Farming Minister Mark Spencer told the NFU Conference.

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer today set out his stall to win the rural vote, declaring that ‘food security is national security’.