Farm Business

A raft of business support has been introduced to keep firms afloat during coronavirus disruption and support workers who may have to be laid off. Cedric Porter reports. 

Farm employers are facing a host of conundrums concerning staff as the Coronavirus crisis deepens. Sharmon Blackwell of CXCS provides 10 key pointers.

Labour availability, supply chain disruption and volatile prices are the issues uniting farmers around the world as the global industry reacts to coronavirus.

There is no doubt that beating the Covid-19 pandemic will require a sustained, collective effort unknown in this country since the end of the second world war.

The lockdown of most of the nation’s population will hopefully have the desired effect of slowing down this hellish virus.

Panic buying of products such as bread and potatoes due to coronavirus fears is supporting prices in these sectors.

We certainly are living in strange and scary times. At the beginning of the month, I had a decent amount of bookings in the diary for the bed and breakfast.

In these unprecedented times, farming’s pivotal role in feeding the nation has been brought back into sharp focus.

The UKs largest milk and grocery doorstep delivery service, Milk & More, has launched a large-scale recruitment drive as 25,000 new customers rushed to sign up to the service during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The dairy company have launched a campaign to recruit up to 300 additional key workers to help manufacture and deliver essential dairy produce.