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It is time for the ‘bullying tactics’ and power imbalance in the dairy supply chain between farmers and processors to end.

Two new support services tailored for the farming community have been launched by the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) in light of ’worrying’ low levels of mental well-being. 

Mandatory labelling needed to be clear, comparative and ‘multi-criteria’ to allow consumers to make sustainable choices but the current system was not delivering.

Farmers Guardian and scores of others across the agriculture sector have long argued that the greening of support payments poses an inherent threat to food security in this country. 

Jim Walker has criticised comments by NFUS president Martin Kennedy on Irish beef filling the UK self-sufficiency gap

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

Defra has today approved an emergency temporary authorisation for the use of the seed treatment, Cruiser SB (thiamethoxam) on the 2022 sugar beet crop in England only, due to the risk from virus yellows.

A group of Shropshire locals are fighting to keep a historic working farm open amid growing concerns that the council is set to pull its funding for the site.

Combining genomic testing with a sexed and beef strategy is helping Aberystwyth University’s farm to efficiently breed the best replacements to suit their new robotic system.

Cost and carbon footprint have driven a Devon family to reduce the number of replacements reared.