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Arla Foods UK was looking to boost branded sales, improving the profitability of the liquid milk category and look to export markets for the first time

It comes as Freshways announced a May price rise breaking through the 40ppl barrier and called on retailers to step up on price rises

Bizza Walters, 24, is from a mixed family farm in Studley, Warwickshire. After studying at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, she works around the UK and abroad as a shepherdess, and is also an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador.

Good silage will be key to making the most of good milk prices in the face of high fertiliser and feed costs.

This month’s #FarmingCAN special feature explores how creating a positive rhetoric with the public is becoming increasingly important for agriculture.

According to Defra, 65 per cent of land used for growing potatoes is infested with the most significant potato pest in the UK, potato cyst nematode (PCN).

The Black Sea’s established ‘stranglehold’ on the UK’s organics market has sparked industry concern about the sector’s future.

Exports of red meat from the UK were worth more than £1.45 billion in 2021, up £33 million on pre-pandemic levels. Hannah Binns reports on AHDB’s Red Meat Export Conference. 

Record wheat prices and sky-high input costs are not tempting growers to change their spring planting plans last minute, according to seed companies.

Gisburn Auction Marts has been fined £18,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,819 after an employee was fatally injured while helping to load a dairy bull into a lorry.