Farm Business

Dairy co-operative Arla has joined forces with charity Magic Breakfast to raise awareness about children’s hunger as a reported four million UK youngsters go without food each morning.

The NFU is calling for urgent clarity on the future of the Seasonal Workers Scheme, amid claims the industry’s future rests ‘on a knife edge’.

Concerns are growing that Defra will not increase payment rates under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), despite an unexpected increase in the department’s budget.

Ploughing more money into Defra’s Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme will keep food prices down for consumers, according to AHDB technical knowledge exchange manager Harry Henderson.

THE launch of the St George brand in 2003 put British lamb on French supermarket shelves, helping build a valuable export trade to France.

A GROUP of scientists from around the world have concluded that the war being waged against meat is ‘simplistic and reductionist’.

LARGE variations in numbers and quality are creating wide fluctuations in the prime lamb trade, with averages failing to tell the whole story.

A GROUP of scientists from around the world have concluded that the war being waged against meat is simplistic and reductionist.

Andrew Francis, former farms director of Elveden Estate, has?launched a new venture to help growers tackle?future industry challenges

Andrew Francis, former farms director of Elveden Estate, haslaunched a new venture to help growers tacklefuture industry challenges