Farm Business

A Government push to make farming ever more reliant on ‘technologies of control’ such as big data, AI, quantum computing and biotech risks undermining the UK’s food security, a leading academic has warned.

A Government push to make farming ever more reliant on technologies of control such as big data, AI, quantum computing and biotech risks undermining the UKs food security, a leading academic has warned.

A Somerset farm run by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farming (RABDF) chair and his family has been fined £37,184 for polluting a watercourse with slurry and manure.

Global concern about the Omicron Covid-19 variant spooked global markets, with grain prices falling in line with oil prices, Cedric Porter asks whether the market will remain bearish

NFU Sugar said talks between themselves and British Sugar to cover the situation growers face of spiralling beet haulage costs this year have ended

Only levy payers registered by March 31 2022 will be able to vote on the future direction of AHDB

Farmers are being encouraged to become more and more reliant on technologies of control such as big data, AI and biotech. But is this really a good idea? Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City, University of London, explores.

The recovery from Covid-19 and Brexit was expected to dominate the next year. By Jonathan Wheeler

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has come under fire about its resource and delivery capability by industry after it left out individual scheme figures in its recent payments progress statement.

Robert Wiseman’s first ever signed dairy producer has handed in his notice to Muller, claiming it is no longer ‘economically viable’ for his business to supply the dairy.