Farm Business

Do you ever get the feeling that some politicians and Ministers have little or no empathy for British agriculture?

Industry must stop tolerating the ‘reckless behaviour’ of using mobile phones while driving tractors, quad bikes and heavy machinery.

Lamb prices may have ’slipped away’ across UK marts in recent weeks, but industry has voiced cautious optimism that trade will stay buoyant in the coming months.

A Cambridgeshire family farm has defeated Swedish dairy-alternative giant Oatly in court over an alleged trade mark infringement.

The Board of Trade, a Government body headed up by Trade Secretary Liz Truss, has claimed buying local food is ‘not always the most environmentally sustainable choice’.

A farmer who allegedly flipped a car over that had wrongly parked in front of a farm gate on private land is facing charges for criminal damage and dangerous driving. 

Farmers have reacted angrily to a threat from Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths to ‘close’ chicken sheds in order to tackle water pollution.

A British man has beaten the nine-hour lamb shearing world record in memory of his daughter. 

FirstMilk will hold its milkprice for September at the current level.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic seeing a 20.3 per cent fall in rural crime costs totalling £43.3 million in 2020, the lowest annual level in five years, thieves returned to UK farmyards with new tactics and targets.