Farm Business

Farmers must comply with UK-wide housing measures to help protect poultry and captive birds against avian influenza.

Climate change, access to labour and an increasing number of cyber attacks were among the possible threats to the UK’s food security listed in a new Government review.

Immigration Minister Kevin Foster has claimed reliance on foreign labour in the farming industry undermines the UK’s food security.

Farm groups have expressed their anger after the UK formally signed the Australian trade deal, with leaders claiming it is ‘devoid of common sense’.

Farm groups have expressed their anger after the UK formally signed the Australian trade deal, with leaders claiming it is devoid of common sense.

That the country needs coherent solutions to the structural problems it faces around labour and creaking supply chains is nothing new. Whether it has a Government fit enough to deliver such solutions is another matter altogether.

A lack of forage and soaring input costs were holding back milk production in the UK

The law change to trailer towing has been given the go-ahead by the Government following last month’s suspension.

Farmers and the Scottish Government must take positive action to avoid what NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy described as the ’car crash’ of England’s Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.

Government has put a ‘handbrake’ on the UK’s ability to produce British food by refusing to fix or even acknowledge the industry’s structural issues, according to farm leaders.