Farm Business

The horticulture sector has been delivered another blow after it emerged a second seasonal worker provider has been removed from the Home Office register.

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.

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’.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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