Tractors descend on Westminster in Ag Bill protest
10th July 2020
Farmers drove their tractors into the heart of London this week as part of a socially-distanced protest against the possibility of cheap food imports arriving in the UK. Volunteer activists
Record your own livestock online
9th July 2020
Innovative new product Cloud Lines allows anyone from home breeders and smallholders to breeding societies and organisations of all sizes to keep full, accurate records of their breeding programmes. It
Aldi CEO vows never to sell chlorinated chicken
8th July 2020
Aldi UK’s CEO Giles Hurley has said that the supermarket will not sell chlorinated chicken or hormone-treated beef, regardless of any future trade deals. The supermarket committed to only selling
JCB secures $269 million order from US military
7th July 2020
JCB has been awarded a contract to supply the U.S. military with a fleet of specialised high speed excavators over the next eight years in a deal worth up to
Tong celebrates 50 years of Grading Screen manufacture
6th July 2020
UK potato and vegetable handling equipment manufacturer Tong Engineering is celebrating 50 years of vegetable grading screen manufacture this month. The renowned manufacturer, has not only been producing steel grading
AHDB estimates show small drop in potato planted area
3rd July 2020
The UK planted area for potatoes has held up despite a turbulent season for growers, according to the AHDB. Provisional estimates show the planted area in Great Britain at 119Kha,
Land Army helps to connect farmers and pickers
2nd July 2020
A website created to help farmers find fruit and veg pickers in the Covid-19 crisis, which has resulted in a shortage of overseas workers, has now registered 25,000 people. Brothers
17 million consumers informed about health benefits of meat
1st July 2020
The second year of a campaign by the British levy bodies has succeeded in reaching 17 million people, helping to bring a more balanced perspective to public discussion around the
Farming groups react to news of Trade and Ag Commission
30th June 2020
Trade secretary Liz Truss has announced that, after months of campaigning from farming groups, the government will set up a Trade and Agriculture Commission to help inform trade policy. In
How well do you know your wheat markets?
29th June 2020
Breeders Limagrain UK have run a short and fun online quiz to find out what British farmers really know about their wheat markets and varieties. “Who would have guessed that