Farm Business

Farming Minister Victoria Prentis has rejected the NFU’s call for a Trade Commission to explore ways to protect food production standards in UK trade policy.

In a bid to signpost students to dairy related training and education courses, the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has launched its own directory.

An agricultural think tank has warned commercial farming is being ‘written out’ of emerging post-Brexit policy, despite the fact that fewer than 10 per cent of farm businesses produce over half the UK’s agricultural output.

Despite the rise in consumer demand for organic products and subsequent growth in organic land, industry representatives have voiced their concerns the UK sector ’lags behind’ its European counterparts.

A self-employed contractor has died after falling through a fragile roof on a farm in the West Midlands.

As the coronavirus lockdown eases and auction marts begin to see more people around the ring, farmers have been warned they must observe social distancing guidelines to enable facilities to remain operational. 

As the coronavirus lockdown eases and some auction marts begin to see more people around the ring, farmers have been warned they must observe social distancing guidelines to enable facilities to remain operational.

Contract farming agreements could pay different rates for different crops

With Covid-19 causing severe milk market turmoil, Arla has revealed the processor drafted in farmers to drive its tankers as part of ’contingency’ measures to ensure the continuity of milk collection during the pandemic.