Farm Business

There is much good in the Agriculture Bill, but its failure to protect farmers from low standard imports is very serious, says Daniel Zeichner, Labour’s Shadow Farming Minister.

The EU’s anti-innovation approach to policy making has stopped UK farmers benefitting from the latest scientific developments – but now there is an opportunity to change that, says Mark Buckingham, chair of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council.

Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has called on Government to provide financial aid for sheep, goat and buffalo milk producers who have seen their supply chains devastated due to Covid-19.

£1 from the sale of every Morrisons’ ‘British Farmers Food Box’ will be donated to farming charities via The Prince’s Countryside Fund to help producers negate the impact of Covid-19. 

Agriculture is a highly versatile industry and the adaptations and innovations taking place in response to the Covid-19 pandemic only reinforces its ability to change at short notice. We catch up with two young professionals whose roles have changed as their sectors face the reality of Covid-19.

Closure of the global wool market due to Covid-19 could significantly impact the fortunes of Britain’s wool board and see farmers receive lower prices for their fleeces, it has emerged.  

Welsh Government’s failure to consider how to protect food security in its post-Brexit policy proposals was flagged as a major concern by respondents to a key consultation, held before the coronavirus pandemic.

An amendment to the Agriculture Bill which would have banned low standard food imports from entering the UK was defeated in the House of Commons by 51 votes last night.

EAC Chairman, Philip Dunne MP has voiced concerns that the decision to suspend work on the Chemicals Strategy could disrupt chemical availability once the Brexit transition period comes to an end.

A farmer and her daughter have been killed following a two-vehicle collision in Northern Ireland.