Beef
Star-studded campaign to highlight mighty meat’s health benefits
A high-profile new campaign aimed at educating the public about how lean red meat can be part of a healthy...
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Arable
Pollination strips could be worth up to £3.6 million to the UK courgette crop
An AHDB-funded PhD study has revealed the value of pollination services to courgettes, finding that pollination margins can improve bee...
Agri-Business
Northern Ireland pays out £85 million in final Direct Payments on day 1
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced that full or balance Direct Payments have been...
Agri-Business
Northern Ireland pays out £85 million in final Direct Payments on day 1
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced that full or balance Direct Payments have been...
Dairy
Muller announces cut to January farm-gate milk price
Muller has confirmed it will cut its January milk price by 1p/L. It means that the processor’s milk price will be...
Rural Life
Appeal to find £200,000 of farm machinery stolen in East Lothian
Police in East Lothian are appealing for information after over £200,000 worth of farm machinery was stolen overnight from a...
Opinion
Beef and sheep farmers need Brexit certainty now
Assuming Theresa May gets a Brexit deal across the line with her parliamentary colleagues over the coming weeks, then the...
Environment
Drainage maintenance neglected for too long - Monitor Farm
Field drainage can make the difference between having a crop and not having it, but drain maintenance has been ignored...
Agri-Business
AHDB 'Pick Pork' campaign drives £3.2 million sales boost
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s (AHDB) latest campaign to promote pork sales has had a considerable impact so far....
Agri-Business
Welsh farmers throw support behind Red Meat Benchmarking
Several Welsh farm groups have given their unanimous support for the Red Meat Benchmarking project, urging all their members to...
Opinion
Dairy fairs are a winter wonderland for milk producers
Take the latest farm gadgets, the country’s best stock, copious amounts of tea and then make boots and coats the...
Rural Life
562ac mixed farm hits market at £7.8 million in Somerset
A 562ac dairy, pig and arable farm with an array of buildings has hit the market in Wanstrow, Shepton Mallet,...
Sheep
‘Beast from the East’ knocks 500,000 off Welsh sheep numbers
Short-term weather factors have, as anticipated, hit the Welsh sheep industry this year, new figures released by Welsh Government show....
Beef
Miller steals the show at Beef and Lamb Championship
This week’s Royal Ulster Beef and Lamb Championships belonged to Moneymore breeder Robert Miller, who sold two very special heifers...
Rural Life
62ac mixed farm for sale at £10,000 an acre in North Antrim
A retirement sale has brought a tidy 62ac mixed farm to the market in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim at £625,000. Including a...
Opinion
'Guess what, rural businesses are totally unprepared for Brexit - but can't blame them'
So only 20% of rural businesses across the UK are Brexit-proofed. Or, put another way, 80% aren’t. These are astonishing...
Arable
Cereals survey...what's in and what's out in 2019?
The areas sown to wheat, winter barley and oats in Britain have all increased compared with 2017-18, according to AHDB’s...
Agri-Business
£4.4 million agri-tech innovation hub opened in Shropshire
A multi-million-pound hub for the development, testing and sharing of technologies to boost productivity in farming and the food supply...
