Livestock

2020 has been a challenging year for farmers, but with the end of the transition period, changes to direct payments and new trade deals on the horizon, 2021 may bring further hardship, says Conservative peer Anne McIntosh.

Brexit will create winners and losers in farming, but the direction of travel makes me fear there will be more losers than winners, says Oliver Dowding, an apple grower in South East Somerset.

A new report published today by the Future British Standards Coalition (FBSC) warns the Government has already watered down protections, scrutiny and accountability around food standards.

Farmers will benefit from three income streams in future - primary food, public goods and carbon trading - and should not delay in embarking on their sustainability journey. 

Industry leaders have warned farmers will face ‘major financial hardship’ during the transition away from direct payments, with Defra planning to maintain the income foregone payment model for the foreseeable future.

A GCSE in natural history has been branded a ‘great opportunity’ to reconnect farming and children by the NFU.  

Nineteen Nuffield Farming Scholars took to the virtual stage to share the findings of their weeks of global travel and research. Hannah Binns finds out more.  

Ancillary rural businesses and communities which hinge on farming in Wales’ uplands face significant threats from a bad trade deal or if farm profitability takes a hit.

THE Three Nations sale of Suffolk females at Carlisle topped at 15,000gns for a shearling gimmer by Malinhead Maverick out of a Mountford Mustang sired ewe from Dennis Taylor’s Ballycannon flock, Colraine, Northern Ireland.

Dog owners have been reminded to keep their pets on a lead around livestock after a farmer was forced to shoot a cockapoo which was chasing his sheep.