Farm Business

It comes as dairy farmers see input costs rise dramatically driving up the cost of production

Inaction from National Resources Wales (NRW) has seen farmland continue to be flooded every year, leaving Anglesey farmers exasperated.

The UK Government, in conjunction with the Devolved Administrations, is seeking views on how to reform AHDB to deliver ‘greater accountability and value for money for farmers’.

The Welsh Government has been accused of seeking to slash compensation payouts to farmers whose cattle go down with bovine TB.

Consumption of Welsh lamb could grow if the sector ‘takes away the risk’, with the meat highly-prized among England’s shoppers compared to its British and New Zealand counterparts.

Scientists have questioned the ’reliability’ of data linking deaths to the consumption of unprocessed red meat, criticising top medical journals for their ’unwillingness’ to produce primary evidence. 

BPS accounted for more than half of average Farm Business Income on cereal, general cropping, grazing livestock and mixed farms

The Government will deliver a long-term vision for agriculture in the next ‘couple of weeks’, promised Farming Minister Victoria Prentis MP at this week’s Agricultural Industries Confederation’s Agribusiness Conference.

The Government will deliver a long-term vision for agriculture in the next couple of weeks, promised Farming Minister Victoria Prentis MP at this weeks Agricultural Industries Confederations Agribusiness Conference.

The spiking of a young farmer via injection at a YFC event has sparked calls for caution.