Farm Business

MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee have called on the Government to appoint a Minister for Food Security in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Rural crime has hit its highest cost level in eight years totalling £54 million in 2019, an almost nine per cent rise, new data from NFU Mutual has revealed.

A proposal by the Lake District National Park Authority (LDNPA) to sell Glenridding Common has prompted fears that the area could be used as a testbed for rewilding.

A farmer has branded a council’s decision to lift a public rights of way (PROW) block on two pathways which cut through his land a ‘shocking oversight’.

The Government has revealed plans for some houses to receive automatic planning permission as it looks to ‘build, build, build’

Figures from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) have revealed only 55 English dairy farmers have received payment since the Government scheme opened for applications in mid-June.

A House of Lords committee has written to the Trade Secretary to ask what kind of compensation the Government will offer to UK farmers if they are undercut as a result of a US trade deal.

The transaction was valued at $6.89 billion (£5.14bn)

Publicans are being urged to look at sustainable alternatives to dispose of waste beer, including animal feed

The wardrobe, the dictionary and cyberspace. If nothing else, the lockdown has seen a fast-tracking of numerous changes. Some of them were in the pipeline already. Some of them have been a bolt from the blue.