Farm Business

The key challenge for businesses will remain around keeping good staff, particularly in the dairy sector

Business and social value of marts highlighted at launch of LAA's new data platform

The Department for Agriculture, environment and rural affairs have issued a proposal to reduce the compensation rate for cattle removed under the bovine Tuberculosis programme

Professor Julia Aglionby said pitching farming for food as the destroyer of nature was 'disingenuous, lazy and damaging'

Farmers said Defra must value the grassland landscapes and biodiversity that upland farms provide

This week from Farmers Guardian's editor Olivia Midgley

UFU president David Brown said: "We have received many complaints from frustrated members informing us that DAERA's IT system is not working to full capacity. This level of service is completely unacceptable."

MPs begged for help to redress balance in supply chain

Defra Secretary, Steve Barclay said he had listened to farmers, bringing what he said was a clearer focus on enabling food production in environmental land management schemes

Normally the family aim to milk a herd of around 120 cows, but at the moment they are only milking 70 cows