Farm Business

Eighty-six per cent of respondents to Knight Frank’s biennial Estate Staff Salaries Survey highlighted limited staff availability and recruitment as increasingly difficult issues

The Government has been accused of ‘failing to honour its promises to farmers’ after Defra Secretary Therese Coffey refused to set out concrete details for the future of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme last week.

This week’s From the editor looks at how the Government should take note of the current farming situation.

NFU dairy board chairman Michael Oakes has warned a milk price collapse will lead to farmers deciding ’enough is enough’

Accusations that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is dragging its feet on support for small abattoirs gathered pace this week, after it rejected proposals for a dual system of meat controls for export and domestic consumption.

Organisers behind a natural capital marketplace launched in Devon say the world – literally – is its oyster when it comes to where buyers will come from.

Farmers and landowners need to start viewing natural capital as an asset to be managed. We asked Mark Tufnell, president of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), for his advice.

As farmers are encouraged to pay closer attention to the natural suite of assets available on farms, which of the key areas are going to be financially incentivised?

A group of farmers have formed a co-operative to trade in natural capital and tap into new environmental schemes.

An estate in North Yorkshire is determined to help its tenant farmers understand and embrace the emerging market in natural capital.