Agri-Business
South Caernarfon Creameries delivers record year for profits
A leading Welsh cheesemaker has delivered a record year with operating profits of £3.4 million on sales of £61.5 million....
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
Trouw invests £2 million in upgrades to Belfast mill
Animal nutrition company Trouw Nutrition has reinvested £2 million in its Belfast mill. The updates, which include the purchase of...
Agri-Business
Education secure at Low Beckside as farm sale completes
The final stages of the sale of Newton Rigg agricultural college’s Low Beckside Farm are on the verge of completion,...
Agri-Business
EU ‘not to launch infringement action’ over UK decision to extend Grace Periods
The European Commission has said it will not launch infringement action after the UK yesterday announced plans to extend the...
Agri-Business
New vision to help increase innovative food growing in Wales
A new vision to increase high tech food production in Wales which also has a positive impact on climate change...
Agri-Business
From microbials to nanosatellites: Meet the 17 start-ups driving the agri-tech revolution
The inventors behind 17 agri-tech solutions will present their ground-breaking technologies at this year’s virtual World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit. The...
Agri-Business
Growers warn peat ban could wipe out NI’s £46 million mushroom industry
Northern Ireland growers have warned a ban on peat proposed in the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs' (DAERA's)...
Agri-Business
'Once again, farmers are seen as the weakest link in the food supply chain' - TFA
The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has said that farmers must not be left to carry the can for the uplift...
Agri-Business
Climate change: Think-tank urges support for alternative meat products
In a report published this morning (September 6), British think-tank, Social Market Foundation, has urged supporting the development and sale...
Agri-Business
Video: Land Rover launches new Defender V8 to mark Bond film
Land Rover SV Bespoke has created a new Land Rover Defender V8 'Bond Edition' to celebrate the 25th James Bond...
Agri-Business
Pottinger hits record turnover in its 150th year
Austrian agricultural machinery company Pottinger has hit a new record turnover in the 2020/2021 financial year – to coincide with...
Arable
Somerset cereal farmer named first White’s Organic Grower of the Year
Pete Cheek from Godminster Farm in Somerset has been awarded the inaugural Organic Grower of the Year award by White’s...
Rural Life
Women in Ag course ‘Be Your Best Self’ to begin in October
The Scottish Government has announced plans to fund a series of training courses – titled ‘Be Your Best Self’ –...
Agri-Business
FAO: Global food commodity prices experience ‘rapid rebound’
Following two consecutive months of decline in June and July, global food commodity prices experienced a 'rapid rebound' in August,...
Agri-Business
UK animal charity wound up amid allegations of ‘serious mismanagement’
A Lincolnshire animal charity which raised more than £10 million in just over a decade has been wound up after...
Agri-Business
Suspected case of BSE being investigated in Brazil
The ministry for agriculture in Brazil is reportedly investigating a suspected case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the country,...
Agri-Business
Mexican market access worth up to £50 million to British pork producers
Access to the Mexican market could be worth up to £50 million to British pork producers in the first five...
Agri-Business
UK miscanthus research gets government funding to help meet net-zero
A project to facilitate more planting of the bioenergy crop, miscanthus, has been awarded over £150,000 of funding. The money...
