Farm Business

Lidl has announced a £4bn investment into British food businesses in the 2023 financial year, describing British farmers as paramount to the success of our business.

Scotland apparently saw a rise in the number of hill farms marketed during 2022 as farmers sought to capitalise on the high prices being paid by forestry and environmentally-motivated buyers.

With fertiliser production in the UK massively scaled back since the start of the Ukraine war, Brineflow managing director Ian Ferris says a new terminal In Sunderland will help improve supplies

Processors have been announcing March prices with Muller dropping 3ppl

The 2023 CropTec Show will go ahead at a new venue after the East of England Showground announced it would close for redevelopment.  

A vastly reduced sugar crop may prompt a look to imports at British Sugar, as it slashes its expectations for production in 2022/23

Strong processing beef demand was supporting prices of cull cows at auction marts

A new campaign to aid the war effort in Ukraine was launched at last week’s SAC Association of Potato Producers conference in Dundee.

First Milk has become the latest processor to announce that its milk price will reduce by 4ppl from March 1, 2023, taking its price to 45.69ppl for a manufacturing standard litre.

Government ambitions to boost food production, protect nature and fight climate change, risk ‘overpromising’ on UK available land, a new report has revealed.