Farm Business

The availability and reliance of rural broadband has come under fire from online holiday booking services, with claims that slow speeds are letting down farmers and rural businesses

Farmers are hosting events across the UK today to highlight the impact of changes to Inheritance Tax on family farmers

All planned rally events across the whole of Scotland have been postponed 

Brian Richardson, head of agriculture at Virgin Money said the Autumn Budget has brought 'more uncertainty' and 'distracting farmers from their main job of providing food for us all'

Events planned across Britain, from Shetland to Cornwall, and from the Giant’s Causeway to Kent

Could the banks be the next ally of British farming in the family farm tax debate?

Alistair Carmichael has called on the Government to increase funding to the agency to avoid further risk to UK farmers

Farmers and politicians are calling for greater support to be provided to Scottish farming and rural communities in addressing the challenges of rural depopulation

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Carmichael said that ‘deep concern' is fuelling low confidence and morale levels in the agricultural and wider rural community and that he would like to meet with the PM urgently to discuss ‘potential mitigations'

Suffolk potato grower Harry Suckling writes about his family farm and his hopes to see Chancellor Rachel Reeves' proposed taxation reforms on UK agriculture reversed