Supply chain

With the recent announcement of its ‘Farming for Nature’ programme, Farmers Guardian's chief reporter Rachael Brown spoke to Waitrose’s Jake Pickering about the retailer’s relationship with farmers

As agriculture faces increasing pressure from sustainability drives, Marks & Spencer chair and farmer Archie Norman told the Future Countryside event why the industry should not lose focus of production

Aldi has revealed an industry first 20-year contract for fruit farm AC Goatham and Son, in a move which will make other retailers take note

Speaking at the Pig and Poultry fair Red Tractor's head of operations, Philippa Wiltshire, stressed lessons were being learned, especially in areas important to farmers — ‘value, audit efficiency and transparency'

Better communication and delivering value to its levy payers is a key target for new AHDB chief executive Graham Wilkinson

Red Tractor chief executive Jim Moseley told tenant farmers last week that the scheme was a ‘victim of its own success' amid a rising demand for consumer and retailer assurance

National Pig Association chair Rob Mutimer said: "The bill for deforestation soya is a three figure increase on what market soya is at the moment"

Outgoing NFU dairy board chair, Michael Oakes said: "They [the processors and retailers] need us and we need them. While we will not agree all the time, by any means, I think actually working together means we are so much stronger"

Trade industry says what is needed is a co-ordinated UK-wide approach to food and markets

Protests seek to highlight the fight against supply chain unfairness and an increase in cheap imports