Dairy
Arla takes unprecedented step to pay out entire 2018 profits
Directors of Arla have proposed to pay out the firm’s entire 2018 net profit to the firm’s farmer-owners in a...
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
English Total Farm Income up 41% in 2017
Total Income from Farming (TIFF) in England increased by 41% last year compared to 2016. It brings the amount earned...
Dairy
Arla's UK income hits £961 million
Arla Foods’ UK arm has seen its revenue grow by 2.3% in the first half of 2018 with a net...
Agri-Business
2 stolen tractors found 26 miles away with false plates
Two stolen tractors worth more than £200,000 have been found with false number plates 26 miles away from the Chorley farm...
Agri-Business
The results are in...but do cover crops really work against black-grass?
The results are in from a study by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) – and it appears to...
Agri-Business
Texan climate change expert to speak at agri-economics seminar
A distinguished Texan professor is set to speak about climate change and its impact on the future of farming at...
Agri-Business
Texan climate change expert to speak at agri-economics seminar
A distinguished Texan professor is set to speak about climate change and its impact on the future of farming at...
Agri-Business
Farmer who lost arm: 'Hearing the air ambulance was the best sound I have ever heard'
A Warwickshire farmer who was flown to hospital after his arm was ripped off by machinery is urging locals to...
Agri-Business
Cheshire vet cleared of disgraceful conduct allegation
The Disciplinary Committee of the RCVS has found a Cheshire-based veterinary surgeon not guilty of disgraceful conduct in a professional...
Agri-Business
17 out of 19 farm vehicles checked by police found with defects
Almost 90% of agricultural vehicles checked by police in Hertfordshire over a two-day operation were found to have road defects....
Agri-Business
'Stops must be pulled' to get farm payments completed
Scotland’s farming union has warned that the stops must be pulled out to complete direct farm payments for farmers caught...
Agri-Business
Almost 300 camelid TB reactors in Britain in 2017
Almost 300 camelids were slaughtered in Great Britain in 2017 after reacting positively to TB tests, the latest official figures...
Agri-Business
D’Arcy steps down as LacPatrick chief
LacPatrick Dairies chief executive Gabriel D’Arcy has announced his decision to resign as chief executive of cross-border milk processor. The...
Agri-Business
Early closure of New Entrant scheme causing 'angst and anxiety'
Scotland’s Next Generation Group has written to Rural Economy Cabinet Secretary Fergus Ewing expressing “extreme disappointment” at news the New...
Agri-Business
2 of Scotland's largest estates to merge
Two of Scotland’s largest estates – Bowhill Estate and Eskdale and Liddesdale Estate – are to merge to form one...
Arable
Scotland's first vertical farm 'arguably world's most advanced'
A Scottish agri-tech business has just unveiled its first indoor vertical farm demonstration facility in Perthshire. The firm behind it,...
Agri-Business
£1 billion Scottish food tourism plan urged to highlight links with farming
Scotland’s farming union has urged those behind a new plan to double the value of Scottish food tourism by 2030...
Agri Politics
'Waygo' amnesty is a 'one-off opportunity' not to be missed
National Farmers Union (NFU) Scotland is urging tenant farmers to make use of the ‘waygo’ amnesty before time runs out....
