Author Posts: Sarah Kidby

Spiralling production costs and variable milk prices have prompted farm leaders to warn that dairy farmers are having to produce a quality product at unsustainable prices.

Teenager Harvey Waters is “ecstatic” as well-wishers donate thousands of pounds to help him, after he lost his savings to an eBay tractor scam.

Farmers and consumers across the globe are celebrating the nutritional and economic importance of milk and dairy products today (1st June), with a special focus on sustainability.

The Efra Committee chair has written to Liz Truss highlighting the “distress and concern” caused to British farmers by reports of a zero-tariff, zero-quota trade deal with Australia.

The deadline is looming for BBC Three’s new series The Fast and the Farmer(ish), which will put contestants through a series of tractor-driving challenges.

Having grown up in the city, working traditional 9-5 office jobs, Michelle and Robert Sullivan one day found themselves in limbo, and decided to take on an entirely different challenge – growing ‘veganic’ produce in rural Aberdeenshire. We spoke to them to find out more about their journey.

Total Income from Farming (TIFF) in 2020 was down by £768 million compared to 2019, despite a 3.4 per cent increase in the value of livestock output.

Badger vaccination, increased cattle testing and acceleration of a bTB cattle vaccine will form the next part of the government’s bTB eradication strategy, as badger culling is set to be phased out.

Animal rights activists blockaded all four UK distribution centres, demanding the fast-food giant go 100 per cent plant-based by 2025.

The Prince of Wales has stressed the importance of Britain’s smaller family farms, and called for renewed attempts to create a co-operative to help secure a viable future for farmers – as agriculture faces a period of significant change.

Carmarthenshire farming business Davies Bros Danrheol wanted to raise money for Cancer Research Wales after the family’s personal experiences with cancer.

Asia and the Middle East have helped boost red meat exports from the UK in what has been an incredibly challenging start to the year, AHDB says.