Commercial News

Aldi has partnered with two British suppliers, introducing new beers in a bid to tackle food waste. 

Morrisons has committed to invest over £1.4 billion into British farming as well as announced a shopping discount for the supplying farmers.

Morrisons is launching British farm bus tours, offering its customers a behind-the-scenes perspective of working farms and the chance to meet the makers of their food. 

Loading workers at CF Fertilisers’ Billingham factory will strike over pay.

Rea Valley Tractors, dealer for New Holland, JCB and Kuhn, has acquired neighbouring dealer, Russells’ Cubley branch.

A Derbyshire broiler unit capable of housing up to 84,000 birds has been put up for sale with a guide price of £1.1million. 

Origin Fertilisers and the Port of Tyne have announced a £7.5 million combined investment in a new fertiliser facility. 

Telecommunications operators have been told they must increase the rent they pay landowners for rural mast agreements by more than 130%. 

Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone brewery has been named one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK. 

The latest Farmland Index launched by global property consultancy Knight Frank has revealed that, despite pre-election uncertainty, the average value of bare agricultural land in England and Wales has reached a new record high of £9,335 per acre in the second quarter of 2024.  

A plant-based drink manufacturer, Oatly, has confirmed it will not be going ahead with the launch of its first UK factory. 

Scotland’s largest independent dairy has noticed an increase in sales of cottage cheese equivalent to the weight of two million kilograms per year.