Farm Life

As Ukraine marks one year since the Russian invasion, Cedric Porter looks at the ripple effect it has had throughout agriculture.

Hannah Senior is the creator of the Innovating AgTech and Plant Breeding Stories podcasts, available on all podcast platforms. She is a passionate advocate for Agri-Tech entrepreneurship. Her own company, PBS International Ltd, works with plant breeders

At the beginning of January my parents went on a well-deserved holiday to Egypt.

Our farm road is the absolute bane of my life and has been ever since I started to drive.

NFU president Minette Batters was entirely right when she told delegates on the first morning of her union’s conference that Government’s seemingly blase attitude towards food production needed exposing for what it was, naive.

With the interpretation that livestock production is destroying the planet, has the role which ruminants play within society been forgotten?

A funding package of more than £168m to boost farming productivity has been unveiled by the Government.

NFU president Minette Batters issued a strongly worded message to policymakers warning them that the ‘clock is ticking’ for Government to get behind British farmers and growers.

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer today set out his stall to win the rural vote, declaring that ‘food security is national security’.

Farm households in Northern Ireland are now eligible for a £600 support payment to help counter rising energy costs.