Farm Business

The chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, Sir Robert Goodwill, has said he intends to look at the possibility of maintaining an element of direct support for ‘small’ farmers.

Farming Minister Mark Spencer has said he will push for small abattoirs to be able to benefit from earned recognition in order to reduce veterinary presence.

An international collaborative study comparing approaches to island depopulation in Scotland and Japan has identified several important lessons which could shape future policy and funding initiatives in this country.

MPs have received assurances that the agricultural policy review being carried out by Defras new ministerial team will tweak the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme, not revolutionise it.

MPs have received assurances that the agricultural policy review being carried out by Defra’s new ministerial team will ‘tweak’ the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme, not ‘revolutionise’ it.

Its member milk price will increase by 0.3ppl in November

NFU Scotland has warned farmers and crofters are being consulted on future agriculture policy for the nation in an ‘information void’.

NFU Scotland has warned farmers and crofters are being consulted on future agriculture policy for the nation in an information void.

Back in the mid-1990s, when I worked as a volunteer for the National Commission on Women’s Affairs at Government House in Bangkok, I went through two Prime Ministers in two years. That was expected in a clearly unstable political system.

Farmers’ profit margins will be harder hit next year as businesses find it difficult to avoid cost increases, Richard King, partner and head of business research at The Andersons Centre, has warned.