Farm Business

This week, we have launched a consultation on the future of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.

Farmers and agricultural contractors from across the UK will take to the roads in Newcastle this weekend in a protest over fuel taxation.

Pleas the UK’s free trade deal with Australia could have a detrimental effect on Welsh farmers have fallen ‘yet again on deaf ears’, Lesley Griffiths, MS Minister for Rural Affairs told the Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC) conference.

Farmers and their communities have been encouraged to recognise the people in their lives that help support them during good and difficult times as part of a new campaign by The Farming Community Network (FCN). 

When it comes to trade, the Kiwis know their onions. That much is clear from the news that the New Zealand Government is quickly moving to capitalise on its trade deal with the UK, which will remove all tariffs on this staple vegetable from the first day it comes into force.

A social media influencer boasting 225K followers has deleted her advert for Tesco’s Plant Chef range after a sheep farmer questioned the product’s green credentials.

Red meat has been completely misunderstood and unfairly targeted as the scapegoat for consumers in the climate change debate.

Red meat has been ‘completely misunderstood’ and unfairly targeted as the scapegoat for consumers in the climate change debate.

Proposals for a new solar farm spanning parts of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire which will see agricultural land taken out of production have faced strong opposition from local farmers.

Farm work pressures in a progressively more isolated role is increasing loneliness in the farming community as farmers struggle to socialise and share their problems.