Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

Defra said that over 66,000 homes, businesses and farmland in rural areas will be protected from the devastating impacts of flooding and climate change thanks to a £2.65 billion investment.

A Shropshire mother and daughter face losing their farming heritage unless supporters can raise £1.5 million to place their organic farm in community ownership.

The father of a three-year-old boy who died after being struck by a telehandler on a Tottington farm has been cleared of manslaughter.

The East Sussex-based farming and charcuterie business, Beal’s Farm, won a Defra research initiative to fund a feasibility study at farming and achieve net-zero results with its Mangalitsa pigs reared to produce British charcuterie products.

Dairy-Tech 2025, an event aimed at all dairy farmers, with a focus on new products and innovations in the industry and technical learning, has gathered about 300 exhibitors and thousands of visitors.

UK Ag Finance has shared a story about how the specialist helped a young farmer through a generational transfer with an agricultural loan.

Supporters of Britain’s farmers are urging fast-food giant McDonald’s to join the industry in demanding that Rachel Reeves rethinks her controversial inheritance tax changes on family farms.

An ambitious plan to stamp out cases of lameness on British dairy farms over the next 20 years has been published.

Almost 50 MPs from across England, Scotland and Wales have signed a letter addressed to the CEOs of the UK’s six largest supermarkets, calling out their unfair practices that are harming farmers. 

British Sugar has issued an update that the factories have already processed just over 80% of the crop and announced closing dates for each site.

Farming Community Network and Dewing Grain have invited farmers to attend a free FarmWell event, which will take place later this month.

British milk production is forecast to grow by over 1% in 2025, according to the latest report from the AHDB.