Farm Business

Plant drink producers have been accused of selling on ‘false’ pretences after an investigation revealed they were selling by-products to livestock farmers.

YEARS of low investment in Defra’s technology has resulted in a serious risk of critical service failure or cyber-attack, according to a new National Audit Office (NAO) report.

The UK egg sector is facing a situation as catastrophic as the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, a prominent producer has warned.

Prospects for a scalable, high-integrity market for farm?soil?carbon?have taken a step forward with the publication of minimum requirements for?soil?carbon?codes.

Eighty-six per cent of respondents to Knight Frank’s biennial Estate Staff Salaries Survey highlighted limited staff availability and recruitment as increasingly difficult issues

The Government has been accused of ‘failing to honour its promises to farmers’ after Defra Secretary Therese Coffey refused to set out concrete details for the future of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme last week.

This week’s From the editor looks at how the Government should take note of the current farming situation.

NFU dairy board chairman Michael Oakes has warned a milk price collapse will lead to farmers deciding ’enough is enough’

Farmers and landowners need to start viewing natural capital as an asset to be managed. We asked Mark Tufnell, president of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), for his advice.

Accusations that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is dragging its feet on support for small abattoirs gathered pace this week, after it rejected proposals for a dual system of meat controls for export and domestic consumption.