Farm Business

Government spending on superfast broadband has stalled, leaving rural communities struggling with poor connectivity.

The Government has committed to ‘broadly maintaining’ current levels of domestic food production in its new Food Strategy, as reported two weeks ago by Farmers Guardian.

Low payments to farmers for siting telecommunications equipment on their land are holding up the rollout of 5G, according to a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).

NFU Cymru has used Welsh Farming Week to unveil a raft of key policy demands that it says should be addressed in the upcoming Agriculture (Wales) Bill.

Farmers with access to digestate are being encouraged to explore the benefits of using it as a cost-effective source of crop nutrition.

The spread of African swine fever (ASF) into a new area of Europe has sparked fresh calls from NFU Scotland for proper border checks on imported pigmeat to be introduced.

Increased land values were raising barriers to new entrants to farming as natural capital and afforestation interest drive Scottish farmland markets according to a new report by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).

The horticulture sector has long been dependent upon foreign pickers and packers, but Home Office Ministers are keen to wind down the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS).

Dairy cows in New Mexico have been euthanised due to pollution from a nearby Air Force base after their milk was found to be unfit for human consumption. By Bruce Jobson

I have recently returned from an interesting few days visiting farms and conservation projects in Latvia.