Farm Business

To mark 100 years of the NFU in Suffolk, a new ale has been launched in collaboration with St. Peter’s Brewery.

Getting the right people to work on farms and in the wider supply chain has been a challenge for the industry for some time now.

Food security, just a few weeks ago in happier times when Parliament was discussing the Agriculture Bill line-by-line, the Farming Minister and I slugged it out over food security, and frankly, very few people noticed, says Labour’s Shadow Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner.

This is an extraordinary time to be involved in our food and drink supply chain says Mike Rumbles, MSP for the North East of Scotland.

In theory, it should be fairly easy to farm while staying two metres away from every other human being. Open fields and solitary tractor cabs mean arable farming is fairly self-isolating at the best of times. There are clearly fewer face-to-face meetings than, say, being Prime Minister.

Helen Browning, Soil Association ceo and organic farmer, shares her thoughts on how the UK can build a more resilient and sustainable food system which would be less exposed to short term shocks and restore a safe climate, abundant nature and good nutrition with Government help. 

US corn area is up for debate as prices have moved lower since recent planting and stock data was taken, meaning farmers planting decisions could easily change.

Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, has called on Defra Secretary George Eustice to place a mandatory two-metre distancing regulation on production lines in food processing factories. 

In a joint letter, a cohort of charities and rural campaigners have urged Government to halt US trade negotiations to focus on the health and economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Farm groups have welcomed a series of emergency measures issued by Government to support Welsh farmers during the coronavirus outbreak.