Farm Business

The BBC has upheld a complaint made about its controversial programme Meat: A Threat To Our Planet?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK is now preparing to leave the EU without a deal, as he accused his European counterparts of ‘abandoning the idea of a free trade agreement’.

Watson’s Dairies had obtained an injunction to prevent farmers selling milk elsewhere

A number of factors including Covid-19, the US elections and a La Nina weather event would drive global grain markets

Defra’s new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme must stop the uplands from being destocked and wilded by stealth, says Phil Stocker, chief executive of the National Sheep Association.

Farming is a resilient industry, but there is still much work to do on issues such as export certificates, trade deals and future policy to prepare us for Brexit, says Matt Legge, a sheep, beef and pig farmer from the Isle of Wight.

Farmers already do so much to preserve our countryside, and there is more they can do, but they must be given the tools they need by Government, says High Peak Conservative MP Robert Largan.

Conservative MPs who voted with the Government to reject an Agriculture Bill amendment to ban low-standard imports have been accused of ‘chucking farmers under a bus’ by the Liberal Democrats.

After months of near-record prices there is a bearish tone to the UK and global pig market amid fears of over-supplies.

Sheep and beef farmers in New Zealand are close to being carbon neutral, independent research has revealed.