Farm Business

Industry leaders have told of their frustration that advice from farming representatives was miscommunicated as the assurance scheme drew up its new standards.

NFU Mutual has urged farmers forced to use their own tractors and trailers for harvest transport to regularly check brakes and hitch mechanisms to minimise the risk of incidents.

Industry leaders have told of their frustration that advice from farming representatives was ‘miscommunicated’ as the assurance scheme drew up its new standards.

Ex-NFU Scotland president and co-chair of the Suckler Beef Climate Group Jim Walker has warned the new Agriculture Reform Implementation Oversight Board is a ‘figleaf’ and will ‘achieve absolutely nothing’.

Ex-NFU Scotland president and co-chair of the Suckler Beef Climate Group Jim Walker has warned the new Agriculture Reform Implementation Oversight Board is a figleaf and will achieve absolutely nothing.

Increased costs of water abstraction licences should not be ’too vast’ for dairy farmers based on the current details, Robert Craig, Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) vice-chair, has said.

Maybe the lack of KFC chicken and McDonald’s milkshakes has focused minds in Government, but it seems the reality of staff shortages within the processing and supply sectors, as well as a lack of HGV drivers, have sparked serious concern.

Crop shortfalls were driving inventories to critically low levels with extraordinary volatility in the past 18 months in the global grains and oilseeds markets, according to Rabobank

Crop shortfalls were driving inventories to critically low levels with extraordinary volatility in the past 18 months in the global grains and oilseeds markets, according to Rabobank

An open consultation seeking industry views on changes to driving legislation, which includes the scrapping of trailer tests for car drivers, has been launched by the Government.