Farm Business

The delay in signing a post-Brexit trade deal with India is cause for optimism on the Government’s trade agenda, according to National Food Strategy author Henry Dimbleby.

Dairy farmers in Wales have said it is unlikely they will sign up to the country’s new Sustainable Farming Scheme as its current terms will ‘inhibit’ production.

Domestic and global factors have combined to put pressure on grain prices, but there is still no sign of a significant drop in values.

A man who worked for more than 30 years on his family’s farm has won a Supreme Court inheritance case against his parents, in a landmark judgment which will have implications for succession plans.

A new £70 million scheme that aims to transform the UKs National Park peatlands from carbon sources to carbon sinks has been met with caution by farming groups.

Women are being put off farming because of a perception that the work is unsuitable for them, according to a new Scottish Government report.

Input costs have risen at record levels over the last year, far outstripping the increase in commodity prices for most farmers.

New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has raised several political careers from the dead just in time for Halloween. But will Chancellor Jeremy Hunt take his reaper’s scythe to the farming budget? Abi Kay explores.

Tree planting and rewilding are driving an increase in dispersals of hill flocks, according to Longtown auctioneer John Walton.

Farmers are facing ‘less scrutiny’ as cost pressures see consumers ditch eco-credentials in favour of lower prices, new research has suggested.