Farm Business

Farming Minister Victoria Prentis has apologised to the business community for the uncertainty over future trading arrangements with the EU.

Increased production and commercial innovation prevented flour shortages during the first lockdown – so there’s no need to panic this time, says National Association of British and Irish Millers (nabim) director Alex Waugh.

Farmers are being urged to act quickly to take advantage of tax relief as their Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) will drop from £1 million this year to £200,000 from January 1, 2021.

Trade Secretary Liz Truss has attempted to reassure Welsh sheep farmers about the prospect of a UK-New Zealand trade deal.

The UK dairy market has largely weathered Covid-19 so far, but could be seriously impacted by Britain’s future trading relationship with the EU.

Thieves wielding crowbars broke into a farm and smashed their way into two milk vending machines, stealing cash from the farm’s honesty box.

The chairman of the Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC), Tim Smith, has said he expects around 80 per cent of the body’s recommendations to Government to be backed by all of its members.

British Wool have appointed Andrew Hogley as acting chief executive officer after Joe Farren stepped down due to ’personal reasons’

The struggle that has been 2020 has now reached November and I can only pray that it is not going to be as wet as October, which was the wettest October on record in our part of north east Scotland.