Farm Business

The Government’s ’miniscule gesture’ of granting up to 10,500 temporary UK visas for lorry drivers and poultry workers has failed to address long-term solutions to the labour crisis and ignored pig welfare.

The Labour Party has promised to give one Minister in every Government department responsibility for rural affairs.

The dairy said it was also recruiting farmers after the Covid-19 pandemic saw a fall in production. 

With many farmers looking for new income streams, Strutt and Parker’s Ed Mansel Lewis takes a look at the opportunities for rural estates

Growers were facing a lack of labour, soaring input prices and the HGV driver crisis

Australia’s near record milk price is set to provide dairy producers with a welcome boost in profits after years of unsustainable returns. By Bruce Jobson.

Australias near record milk price is set to provide dairy producers with a welcome boost in profits after years of unsustainable returns. By Bruce Jobson.

Oat-based dairy alternatives have overtaken almond as the UK’s favourite

Fulcrum, an independent multi-utility infrastructure and service provider, has secured a £1.6 million project with grain storage co-operative Camgrain.

Collection of produce from farms has slowed up, as has delivery of vital inputs such as seed and animal feeds.