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The standard pig price (SPP) has continued to rise with prices up 0.78p/kg in the week ending May 28 to a record 176.73p/kg, but it remains a long way short of soaring costs of production

As maincrop potatoes race through growth stages, the second article in our series following agronomists in the East and West, considers how to protect crops from blight and maximise yield potential.

Several food and farming chiefs have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Meat and poultry production will stall unless something is done to address the growing skills shortage, compromising the UK’s food security, Tony Goodger, AIMS spokesperson, has warned.

A myth has developed in recent years that British people do not want to work in the meat processing sector, but is it true? Abi Kay reports.

Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths has said she is open to looking at technological advances which could eliminate the need for closed slurry spreading periods.

Farmers have been urged to fit fire suppression systems to their combines to reduce fire risk and save lives and harvest.

A great opportunity is there for the taking, but will the Labour Government in Cardiff Bay take it?

Taxpayers’ money will be wasted and environmental targets missed if the Government does not put farmers and food production at the heart of its post-Brexit policy, an industry expert has warned. 

Farming projects designed not only to boost nature, but also to attract private investment are set to benefit from grants of up to £100,000, it has been announced.