Farm Business

The Government has made a number of important announcements affecting farming in recent months. Abi Kay speaks to Defra Secretary George Eustice to get the inside track on the latest developments.

Muller was targeting a 30 per cent reduction in emissions from its farmer suppliers as consumers look more closely at the impact of the choices they make.

The dairy has announced a 3ppl rise from January 1

Small marginal gains which accumulate made up the difference between the top, middle and lower third of beef and lamb producers, according to QMS

Milk prices have seen big upwards moves as various processors attempt to address the challenges of unprecedented increases in costs.

Shoppers want to know enough about their food to feel comfortable in their purchases but many could be put off by too much detail, according to Red Tractor’s Christine Tacon

A stolen border collie responsible for keeping 800 ewes in check will be reunited with its farmer following a police investigation by Devon and Cornwall Police and Warwickshire Rural Crime Team.

Rural roads were the location of 1,649 fatalities and 16,055 serious injuries between 2018 and 2020, making them more deadly than their urban counterparts, new data from the Department for Transport (DfT) has found. 

When the UK nations started formulating their own farming policies in wake of leaving the EU, there was much talk of ’pushing money up the hill’; the insinuation being that those in the uplands would be properly rewarded for their role in managing the environment at a landscape scale.

Defra’s latest fly-tipping figures fail to tell the ’full story of disgraceful behaviour which blights the countryside’, CLA president Mark Tufnell has said.