Farm Business

After recruiting and training your staff, you want to keep hold of them, but how? Jez Fredenburgh speaks to farm employers and employees about how to boost retention.

More than half (59 per cent) of small abattoir owners are preparing to shut up shop over the next five years, new research from National Craft Butchers (NCB) has shown.

Farmers have raised concerns about the UK Government’s new tree planting grant scheme, warning it is ‘deeply unattractive’.

Farmers have raised concerns about the UK Governments new tree planting grant scheme, warning it is deeply unattractive.

The dairies announced a merger last week which they said would help them compete with the largest players in the industry

A group of growers has called on Defra to support an Australian and New Zealand inspired research agency which would see the continuation of a ‘small’ statutory levy and a larger voluntary investment levy

As the Government moves to tackle the ‘pingdemic’ adding to labour shortages in the food supply chain, Alex Black takes a look at the longer term structural issues causing concern in the processing industry

Ranjit Singh Boparan has warned supply of chicken and turkey was under threat

UK pork producers have been reminded of the looming threat African swine fever (ASF) poses following the disease’s ‘inexorable spread ever westwards’.

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade.