Farm Business

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.

Farmers can tap into Defra funding to help them during the seven-year agricultural transition.

As the sun shines and summer makes its presence felt, it would usually be a time when many flock to shows around the country and, thankfully, there is the opportunity to do just in some parts of the UK.

Production of Lactofree milk for the UK market has started in Yorkshire following a move from Denmark and Sweden

Projects to create new woodland, deliver natural flood risk management and improve water quality are among an initial 27 schemes to benefit from a new fund to drive private investment in nature, Defra and Natural England have announced.

Crop losses from last week’s European storms have already led to price rises

Two quad bikes were stolen by ’opportunist’ thieves from exhibitors’ stands at the Great Yorkshire Show.

The pandemic has given people a greater appreciation of the landscapes farmers provide, with 71 per cent of people saying they feel fortunate to be able to access the British countryside a new survey has found.

Farmers have been urged to make public safety part of their health and safety policy following an increase in on-farm fatalities this year.

The publication of Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy has been broadly welcomed by industry bodies but there are areas of concern for meat, dairy and sugar producers