Farm Business

Convenience markets could pose a potential opportunity for the red meat sector as shoppers turn back to quick and easy meals.

With food security increasingly on the mind of all countries, Minister for Climate Change and Environment Mariam Almheiri spoke to Farmers Guardian about how the UAE was looking to reduce its reliance on imports

Head of news Abi Kay writes about how the Tories are losing their grip on their rural heartlands.

With disruption to the 2022 Ukrainian harvest now a certainty, Cedric Porter takes a look at how fears of a global grain shortage are driving global cereal markets

Buyers and sellers have rediscovered the value of the live sales ring throughout the challenges of the pandemic, as integrated systems come under more scrutiny

There is a real danger Red Tractor (RT) could become Defra’s policing body, making the assurance scheme ‘more compulsory than voluntary’, farmers fear. 

Over 150 British farmers have written to Defra Secretary George Eustice demanding that the Government immediately rolls out the Landscape Recovery and Local Nature Recovery schemes, both part of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.

Fake meat will not save the planet and risks entrenching domination of food systems by giant ag-corporations, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES) has warned. 

Since Putin’s invasion, Ukraine has rarely been out of the headlines. But less attention has been paid to how Russians are handling sanctions. Abi Kay speaks to a Moscow farm manager to see how the ag sector is faring.

A Kent farmer has been fined £4,992 after a worker became entangled in the contra-rotating rollers of a potato harvester and suffered multiple injuries.