Farm Business

Members of The Farming Forum (TFF) Grassroots Group have urged the Government to allocate more than 60 per cent (62.5) of England’s £2.4bn agriculture budget to permanent grassland.

A new briefing for MPs and Peers which explored the potential health risks associated with pesticides, and their regulation post-Brexit, has been published by a University of Sheffield (UOS) PhD researcher.

The Oxford Artisan Distillery’s Dave Smith spoke to Hannah Binns about why responsible farming needs to be the first step in the spirit-making process. 

A major new survey of the agricultural community carried out by the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) has revealed that more than one-third (36 per cent) of farmers are probably or possibly depressed.

Red Tractor received some criticism at the NFU Council for its ‘heavy-handed’ and ‘insensitive’ letter to pig producers, which outlined the assurance body’s expectations amid the pig pile-up.  

Following mounting industry pressure for Government intervention, a new support package has been announced to support pig producers through the market turmoil caused by the labour crisis. 

Half of farmers do not have a succession plan in place, with a third believing it is not ’relevant’ to them, new research from the NFU Mutual has revealed.

While the focus has been on trade deals with the US, Australasia and India, Promar divisional director John Giles spoke to Alex Black about why Indonesia should be on the radar of UK food and drink exporters

Defra’s ’appalling’ engagement with farmers on the Sustainable Farming Initiative (SFI) has sparked fresh calls for its rollout to be delayed, with growing concern the scheme will have limited appeal.

Pig producers caught up in the ongoing labour crisis will not receive compensation for the cull of healthy livestock and must absorb the financial losses, according to Defra officials.