Farm Business

Farm groups have raised conflict of interest concerns after an Environment Agency (EA) employee working on Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) policy was found to have spoken at an Animal Rebellion march.

Change is coming and denying it could destroy farm businesses.

A farmer has sparked an appeal for information after thieves stole 220 solar panels and two inverters worth approximately £70,000 from a field in Lincolnshire.

The UK’s progress on antibiotic reduction could be an advantageous selling point in future trade deals but requires better articulation and data from industry.

Cranswick said the labour and supply challenges were being well-managed in its business as the crisis continues for pig farmers

Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru have agreed to work together on a number of key rural issues, including the Government’s controversial water regulations, as part of a landmark Co-operation Agreement published this week.

60 per cent of the expected tonnage of malting barley and 90 per cent of the expected wheat could not be found when the merchant was placed in administration

A collection of three new styles of knitwear made from 100 per cent British Wool has been launched by Fred Perry. 

The cooperative said it was needed at a time of ’significant inflationary pressure impacting on-farm costs and milk production’.

The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has accused Defra Minister Lord Benyon of giving a ‘completely incorrect’ account of a recent meeting with Farming Minister Victoria Prentis to the House of Lords.