Farm Business

With the COP26 summit underway in Glasgow, First Milk bosses set out how the co-operative was looking to be part of the solution. Hannah Binns reports. 

Farmers have been encouraged to lace up their trainers and get involved with mental health fundraiser, Run1000.

The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) has reassured farmers that support in the Lancashire area will not be affected following the resignation of its fundraising committee in the county.

Virgin Money has launched a new £9 million partnership with Plumpton College, East Sussex to develop the future of agricultural and horticultural education across south-east England.

The UK’s ability to respond to a future animal disease outbreak is being put at risk by a shortage of vets across the country, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has warned.

A farmer from Somerset has been fined £11,000 for polluting a watercourse with slurry in three separate incidents for the second time in five years.

The Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society appears to be in turmoil with the president resigning and the chief executive reportedly uncontactable.

After a tumultuous year for the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs (NFYFC) which saw memberships plummet significantly, Hannah Binns takes a look at the health of the charity as it enters its ninth decade.

Farming must not be seen as the ’scapegoat’ for methane emissions, farming chiefs have warned.

A new deal between the UK and the EU will allow breeding sheep to be moved from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (NI) again, after Brexit imposed an effective moratorium.