Dairy
UK Dairy pledges to reduce food waste by 30% by 2025
The UK’s dairy industry body, Dairy UK, has vowed to slash food waste 30% within the next seven years. It...
DEFRA
Agri-Business
2 weeks left for Seasonal Farm Workers Pilot applications
Businesses have just two weeks to apply for the for the pilot of the Government’s Seasonal Farm Workers Scheme. The...
Environment
9 sightings of invasive Asian hornet recorded in UK
To date, there have been nine confirmed sightings of the Asian hornet in England and five nests have been destroyed,...
Agri-Business
Agriculture Bill 'effectively a notice period' for British farmers
Former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has warned the Government’s Agriculture Bill plans British agriculture are effectively a “notice period” for farmers...
Agri-Business
Calls for Welsh badger cull to be reinstated following English results
Welsh farmers are calling for the country’s devolved Government plan to cull badgers to tackle bovine TB to be reinstated...
Agri-Business
£3 million support scheme launched to reduce farming's ammonia emissions
A new team of experts officially start today to help farmers reduce ammonia emissions from agriculture. The £3 million Catchment...
Agri-Business
NFU calls for improvements ahead of 2018 ES payments
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called for improvements to be made to the current farm payment system ahead of...
Agri-Business
Annual livestock survey: What's up and what's down in 2018?
Defra has released the final results of its estimates of livestock numbers on commercial agricultural holdings in England on June...
Agri-Business
Agriculture Bill: Government 'myth-busts' on Scottish farm future
Agriculture is devolved to the Scottish Government and will remain devolved, the Government has clarified, refuting SNP claims of a...
Environment
Environmental Stewardship payments on their way
The Government has announced it will make bridging payments to ensure all those who claimed Environmental Stewardship for 2016 or...
Agri-Business
Vets welcome bill's recognition of animal health and welfare as public goods
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has welcomed Defra’s announcement that animal health and welfare will be considered as ‘public goods’...
Agri-Business
Bill 'fails to recognise farmers as food producers first and foremost'
Critics have said the Government’s new agriculture legislation has failed to recognise farmers for their main responsibility – producing the...
Agri-Business
National Farmers' Union takes food report to Westminster
The National Farmers’ Union has today launched a food report, ‘UK: A Nation United by Food’, which will be sent...
Agri-Business
Government’s plans for agriculture 'lack balance'
The Government’s new Agriculture Bill has been criticised as “lacking balance” by an organisation representing tenant farmers. Tenant Farmers Association...
Agri-Business
Government publishes landmark Agriculture Bill...but what does it mean for farms?
Michael Gove has set out the Government’s major post-Brexit agriculture policy to invest in the environment and take back control...
Environment
Government increases access for landowners' woodland creation grants
From today, it will be easier for landowners to access Government grants for creating new woodland, Environment Minister Therese Coffey...
Agri-Business
New pilot scheme to bring 2,500 seasonal workers to UK farms
A nationwide pilot to bring migrant workers to UK farms has been announced by the Home Secretary and Environment Secretary...
Agri-Business
New Livestock Information Programme 'pivotal' for UK farming
The Government’s new Livestock Information Programme is going ahead and going to plan, according to an update made to key...
