Farm Business

The livestock sector has a proven track record of attracting and maintaining domestic labour on-farm, with an extremely low reliance on migrant workers. Hannah Binns explores the reasons behind this.

Welsh farmers can tap into a series of free online workshops designed to help them stay fit to farm.

Government Food Tsar Henry Dimbleby has said the upcoming land use framework promised by Ministers will reveal ‘stark trade-offs’ about how much meat the country can produce and where.

The Home Office has been accused of ‘locking out’ industry leaders who want to discuss the crippling labour shortages affecting the food and farming sector.

New research has suggested ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing soils to thin and could threaten future crop yields.

A whole supply chain approach must be considered when looking to address the chronic labour shortages the UK’s pig sector is experiencing. Hannah Binns reports on the steps industry is taking.

Any compulsory bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) scheme introduced in Wales must be robust and provide accurate, timely information about a herd’s status at the point of sale, NFU Cymru deputy president Abi Reader has said.

Rewilding and carbon sequestration projects are putting rural livelihoods, as well as farmland, at risk, industry bodies have warned. By Ewan Pate and Jane Thynne.

A farm which featured on a BBC Panorama programme showing shocking footage of animal abuse has been recertified by Red Tractor. 

Profitability was the biggest challenge facing farmers, according to a new report by Hillsgreen