Environment
ABP research farm shows that improving genetics reduces carbon emissions
By Olivia Cooper Improving genetics is the key to reducing farmers’ carbon footprints and maximising efficiencies, a beef research farm...
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
UK-NZ trade deal ‘presents serious concerns’ for NI agriculture
The trade deal agreed between the UK and New Zealand presents "serious concerns" for Northern Ireland's agriculture, Agriculture Minister Edwin...
Agri-Business
Take steps towards net zero at Midlands Machinery Show
The environment is an ever-increasing consideration for farmers aiming towards net zero, with payments favouring practices to benefit wildlife, water...
Agri-Business
Breedr smashes £1 million crowdfunding target
Breedr has smashed its crowdfunding target just 24 hours into the campaign. Initially opening to existing farmer members and investors,...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Clearing a maize crop grown ‘plastic free’
It was the desire to get away from planting under plastic that led Pat Kinsella to take a long hard...
Agri-Business
National Geographic Traveller to showcase Welsh food and drink
National Geographic Traveller (UK) has teamed up with Food & Drink Wales to launch a new multi-stage initiative designed to...
Agri-Business
Hilton Foods acquires Fairfax Meadow meat supply operation
Hilton Foods Ltd. has acquired 100% of the share capital of Fairfax Meadow Europe Ltd., a leading meat supplier to...
Agri-Business
India comes calling with Farmtrac tractors
India makes a lot of tractors - nearly 900,000 in the latest accounting year - and there is a lot...
Dairy
New milking method launched aimed at cutting milking time
DeLaval has announced the launch of two new products as part of its new Flow-Responsive milking system, which it claims...
Agri-Business
Fonterra milk price increase could see $13b flow into regional NZ
Fonterra has increased and narrowed its forecast farmgate milk price range to NZD $7.90 - $8.90/kgMS, from NZD $7.25 -...
Agri-Business
£185 million boost to the Welsh food and drink industry from Project HELIX
A Welsh government and EU-funded project has delivered a significant boost to the food and drink industry in Wales, helping...
Agri-Business
EU agri-food exports to UK down €411m this year
The biggest decline in agri-food exports from January to July of this year was seen in those to the UK,...
Agri-Business
Over 200 new food products on display at BlasCymru
From the UK’s first carbon-neutral potatoes to plant-based desserts and alcohol free botanic drinks, Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Building a road to hydrogen power
JCB is no lightweight in the off-road machinery sector, so when the company nails its colours firmly to the hydrogen...
Agri-Business
NI ‘faces difficult task to achieve net zero emissions’ – climate chair
Northern Ireland’s dependence on agriculture will impede the region's ability to reach net zero emissions by 2050, the chair of...
Agri-Business
Kubota adds substance to its I.T intentions
A rapid widening of its embrace of digital technology would appear to be the current focus of Kubota. The company...
Agri-Business
NVZ regulations will undermine milk production and dairy industry - FUW
Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) chairman Dei Davies has said that the current Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) regulations will “severely undermine”...
Agri Politics
UK-NZ free trade deal: How it affects the agricultural community
Following 16 months of negotiations, the Prime Ministers of the UK and New Zealand – Boris Johnson and Jacinda Ardern...
