Farm Business

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.

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

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.

The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has called for a rethink of the way farm animals are fed, branding the current approach ‘inherently inefficient’.

The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution has launched a ‘return to school’ grant to help farming families cover the cost of school uniforms, P.E. kit and other equipment.