Diversification

Wheat is successfully being produced in an indoor vertical farm using no soil or pesticides and less water when compared with conventional methods.

Changes to farm businesses can often mean there are buildings which are surplus to requirements and a popular diversification is to look at changing the building to something completely non-agricultural. Jane Carley looks into farm storage.

There are no hard and fast rules to diversification and for these businesses ‘thinking outside the box’ has delivered a winning formula for diversification success.

More than a third of farmers say diversification is the only way to boost their income, a new survey has revealed.

A farmer has won a four-year business rates battle against HMRC in what could become a landmark victory for farm parks.

Television presenter-turned-farmer Jeremy Clarkson has launched an appeal after his local council ordered him to close his Diddly Squat eatery.

Welsh Government wants the country to grow more of its own fruit and veg. But will the horticulture start-up grant be enough to tempt farmers to diversify?

The Government has pledged more than £100m to help level up rural communities and businesses, it has been announced.

Farm-based solar projects will be an important part of the energy mix going forward but ’mega’ arrays of ground mounted panels will continue to face opposition, the NFU has said.

Farmers and landowners could benefit from a drive for new infrastructure, according to the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV)