Farm Business

The Scottish seed potato sector has experienced mixed fortunes this season with exports being easier but the domestic market remaining hesitant.

NFU president Minette Batters was entirely right when she told delegates on the first morning of her union’s conference that Government’s seemingly blase attitude towards food production needed exposing for what it was, naive.

The first two phases of the £62m International Barley Hub at the James Hutton Institute (JHI) have been completed and are in use.

The SNP leadership race is taking shape with none of the three candidates announced so far having an obvious link with farming.

A Leading horticulture body has hit out at supermarkets saying that retailers’ failure to back British growers over the winter has led directly to empty shelves and rationing.

Badger culling has to be part of the strategy to combat bovine TB, Farming Minister Mark Spencer told the NFU Conference.

A funding package of more than £168m to boost farming productivity has been unveiled by the Government.

NFU president Minette Batters issued a strongly worded message to policymakers warning them that the ‘clock is ticking’ for Government to get behind British farmers and growers.

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer today set out his stall to win the rural vote, declaring that ‘food security is national security’.

Farm households in Northern Ireland are now eligible for a £600 support payment to help counter rising energy costs.