Farm Life

Free-range egg farmers were calling for supermarkets to look to the dairy sector for answers as the average producer loses 29p for every dozen eggs they sell.

BASF Agricultural Solutions has won the Crop Science Award for the Best Public Outreach Programme category for its public advocacy campaign,Farming, The Biggest Job on Earth.

BASF Agricultural Solutions has won the Crop Science Award for the “Best Public Outreach Programme” category for its public advocacy campaign,?‘Farming, The Biggest Job on Earth’.

A new grant to help farmers in England better manage slurry is being introduced next month, the Government has confirmed.

Dairy co-operative Arla has joined forces with charity Magic Breakfast to raise awareness about children’s hunger as a reported four million UK youngsters go without food each morning.

Ploughing more money into Defra’s Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme will keep food prices down for consumers, according to AHDB technical knowledge exchange manager Harry Henderson.

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

Seven sheep have been killed and at least 25 more injured in what Welsh police are describing as a ‘sickening’ attack.

Upto 1,000 hectares of Oxfordshire agricultural land is set to make way for a giant solar farm that could sit amid community allotments and bee hives, it has been revealed.

Retail giant Waitrose has made farmers and producers the stars of its Christmas campaign as a way of thinking them for all their hard work this year.