Iran War

Food inflation could top 6% as NFU issues warning on farmgate prices

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: William Taylor, Farmers For Action co-ordinator, discusses the decision to pause a UK-wide farm protest and the push for a Farm Welfare Bill

Keep an eye on the latest trends in the fuel markets as the crisis in the Middle East continues

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is chair of RABI Monmouthshire and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

Suffolk Central MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter said UK food prices could go if the Government does not act to support farmers with skyrocketing fertiliser costs

Instability stifling investment as no sign of end to conflict in Middle East

Former Defra Secretary George Eustice draws on his experience of dealing with price shocks during war in Ukraine to offer some long-term solutions which could help UK farmers contending with challenges from war in the Middle East

How is war in the Middle East impacting UK farmers? Is the Government doing enough to support domestic food producers as costs for key farm inputs spiral? And are farmers ready to hold protests across the UK?

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

UK growers are under renewed pressure from conflict in the Middle East, and all at a time when margins were already under significant strain