Farm Business

Increasing economic pressures, supply concerns and wider environmental issues are set to amplify farm expenditure, with recent budgets looking quite different to those 12 months ago.

Increasing economic pressures, supply concerns and wider environmental issues are set to amplify farm expenditure, with recent budgets looking quite different to those 12 months ago.

Calls for the Government to work more closely with the poultry sector are growing following further outbreaks of avian influenza across both England and Scotland.

Farmgate price drops have continued to be announced into the new year as processors point to the impact of global commodity markets on UK prices.

What started as an escape during the Covid lockdown has snowballed into a popular veg box scheme at one Welsh farm.

Urgent action must be taken to make supply chains fairer if food is to be produced more sustainably in the coming years, a new report commissioned by the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) has said.

Farming support schemes are set to be disrupted this month after more than 400 staff at the Rural Payments Agency voted to strike.

The anticipated joint venture between ForFarmers and Boparan could lead to farmers paying higher prices to feed their poultry, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found.

High costs, economic turmoil and extreme weather were all features of 2022 that are set to feature again in 2023