Farm Business

90% of wheat stocks and 60% if the malting barley stocks were nowhere to be found following the collapse with many farmers owed six figure sums

More consumers trust British food and are choosing to buy British than ever before, a new survey has revealed.

The UK Government has promised to launch a consultation on public procurement this summer, with a view to buying more local food.

Christopher Price, chief executive of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, has written to Defra Secretary George Eustice after he appeared to dismiss concerns about the state of the abattoir network at Groundswell.

As applications open for a 259-hectare (640-acre) farm in west Somerset, Dairy Farmer looks at how this business model could work for both new entrants and landowners.

Diversifying into rearing livestock could present an opportunity for arable farmers looking to plug their future Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) gap.

Industry chiefs have reaffirmed the need for a comprehensive set of measures to tackle bovine TB, including badger culling, as field trials for a new cattle vaccine got underway this week.

Thirty-four workers lost their lives in agricultural incidents from April 2020 to the end of March 2021, marking a ’shocking’ 70 per cent death toll increase compared to last year, new data from HSE has revealed.

The future beyond BPS was the hot topic on business standards at this year’s Cereals Event

The Tenant Farmers Association has warned increased payment rates for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2022 are not enough by themselves for farmers to enter the scheme.