Coronavirus

Measures have been put in place to ensure student safety within a learning environment amid the Covid-19 pandemic at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).

New measures have been adopted across the UK’s agricultural universities to ensure student safety amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in April, food kept flowing through the UK’s borders and into our supermarkets. But a second wave coupled with a no-deal Brexit has the potential to threaten our supply, says Efra select committee chair Neil Parish.

Arable farmer Martin Lines has a specific interest in farm conservation and management and is UK chairman of the Nature Friendly Farmer Network. Hannah Park reports.

The National Trust has defended keeping its farm advisors on furlough at a pivotal time for the agriculture sector.

The risk of a livestock market being shut down due to Covid-19 restrictions remains very real.

A major poultry processor has called on Ministers to support the food manufacturing industry after a Covid-19 outbreak forced its factory to temporarily close its cutting room, at a cost of £2m a week.

A surge in ‘irresponsible’ countryside visitors has left a tenant farmer frustrated at dealing with incidents of poisoned sheep, wild campers and human excrement on his Peak District farm.

In a normal year, mid-September is the time when eyes are cast towards the end of the agricultural show season.

Teaching school children how food is grown is just one benefit of the work of Norfolk-based charity the Papillon Project. The charity’s founder Matt Willer told Clemmie Gleeson that farmers have played a big part in its success so far.