Farm Business

The council has promised the farmer a ’cast iron guarantee’ housing developments would not go ahead on the site

Spanish supermarket giant Mercadona has raised the price of milk following protests by Spanish farming unions.

Strategic planting of hedgerows could help farmers reduce insecticide costs by 30 per cent while boosting the yield of pollinating crops by 10 per cent, new research from the CPRE has found.

South Caernarfon Creameries has announced record operating profits of £3.4 million, with sales of £61.5m

Graeme Skinner, independent potato agronomist and director of Provenance Potatoes, said it had been one of the most difficult seasons he could remember

A competition to find a UK sheep farmer to front the Love Lamb Week campaign next year has been launched by the National Sheep Association (NSA).

A member of the public driving a mobile scooter on a farm track has died in a farm collision.

English farmers can tap into free bovine TB advice and increased trained vet visits regardless of their risk status, following Defra granting the TB Advisory Service (TBAS) Successor Contract to Farmcare Solutions. 

The Soil Association has called for a 50 per cent reduction in poultry consumption and a 30 per cent cut in production to enable the Government to reach its environmental goals.

Farmers should not anticipate too much change in light of the Government’s new public consultation on banning a range of polluting plastics this autumn.