Farm Business

A number of agricultural bodies have sent a joint letter to International Trade Minister Kemi Badenoch demanding that a set of core standards relating to food, animal welfare and the environment be established ahead of any further trade deals.

Britain’s ’struggling’ cider market will face further pressure next year after HM Treasury’s Alcohol Duty Review consultation response ’ignored’ industry concerns.

The free range egg sector is in crisis as producers lose £8.63 on every hen, amounting to nearly £250,000 for the average flock of 32,000 birds.

The sheep sector has expressed its delight that British lamb has been exported to US for the first time in more than two decades, following ‘many years of hard work’.

Many youngsters had decided what type of job they would not do by the age of nine, showing how vital it was to promote farming as a career from a young age.

The new Defra Farming Minister, Mark Spencer, has hinted that a rethink on the phase out of badger culling could be on the way.

A farmer has been left feeling ‘pretty sick’ after 116 Romney ewes, worth approximately £17,000, disappeared from his 460-strong flock, feared to have been slaughtered.

If children really do make their minds up about which careers they do not want to do by the age of nine, then agriculture needs to be at the forefront of selling its wares to the next generation from a young age.

Dairy farmers on aligned milk contracts have ‘jumped ships’ or are considering it in search of greener pastures, according to industry leaders.

The future direction of AHDB and how its levy will be invested during the next five years will be unveiled to levy payers next month.