Farm Business

Food scandals from almost 40 years ago are still affecting consumer buying trends, a new survey has revealed.

Sophie Ascroft is currently on the McDonald’s Progressive Young Farmer scheme, but her journey took an unexpected turn before finding her place back in the industry. Here, she shares her personal experience with Farmers Guardian.

FG investigates: As prices continue to rise at supermarkets, driving inflation higher, Cedric Porter investigates the gap between the retail price rises and the farmgate

The four leading UK farming unions have issued a joint statement demanding the Government address their concerns over food security and the end of the Energy and Trade Intensive Industry scheme (ETII).

Farmers in England are one step closer to tapping into gene editing technology, with the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act to remove precision bred, or ‘gene edited’, products from the scope of GMO legislation, bringing rules in line with other countries around the world, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Argentina.

Access to financing plus greater guidance and support will be key if UK farmers are to achieve the goal of carbon net zero by 2050, a new cross-industry report explains.

Britain must dramatically increase the amount of controlled environment horticulture it has in order to offset imports and meet health eating targets.

The levy body confirmed it has achieved the target of reducing operational costs by £7.8 million by the end of the 2022/23 financial year

24 Hours in Farming, one of agriculture’s biggest digital events, has been shortlisted for a major award.

Arla’s price will drop by 5.30ppl for its conventional and organic farmers from April 1