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The dairy said it continued to engage with customers to secure price increases to pass back to the farm gate

Floss Styles, 30, is the founder of the First Generation Farmers Group on Facebook. From two sheep to 60, she is building up a farming business in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, while working full-time.

Farmers could be in danger of holding firearms illegally as licensing delays reach an ’untenable’ level. 

Defra has said small abattoirs are likely to benefit from public funding in the future, following industry unrest over dwindling capacity.

Co-operatives could be essential in helping to create sustainable local food systems in Wales.

Contracts worth £34.5 million have been offered by the UK Government to companies to train up to 11,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers, in a move welcomed by farm chiefs.

Farmers will absolutely not be penalised for early adoption of environmental schemes in the transition between old to new, Defra Minister Victoria Prentis has said. 

With it taking anything up to 17 years of research and development to bring a new product to the seed variety market, Barenbrug UK managing director Paul Johnson talks to FG about the breeder’s priorities in the years ahead

With a focus on agroecological food production, this years Oxford Real Farming Conference discussed the latest research on low input crop management.

Brexit has failed to deliver for small abattoir owners despite the fact that crushing EU rules have led to many slaughterhouse closures in recent years, an industry leader has warned.