Farmers worldwide are being squeezed between monopoly suppliers and monopoly buyers. With farmers fragmented, they have to be "price takers".
With worldwide governments content to allow food producers to "go hang", food shortages are becoming ever more commonplace. Be it wheat in Africa, rice in...
I was half a sleep this morning but on Farming Today they were saying how bad things were for small farmers.
I don't agree. Of course someone who owns 50 acre of land with development potential is very different to someone renting 50 acres of land at a high rent.
But if we say perhaps 100...
Not farming, but railways crop up on here quite often.
The above film shows lots of history & the fields are in the back ground.
I remember as a boy sleeping over at Grandma's house, counting the coal trains going to Manchester all night long. Its all ripped up now & a busy footpath, The...
Well what do others think? It seems to me, while our govt, makes "our " farmers, jump through all the hoops, ( rules, regulations etc etc), right? Meat from wherever? floods into the UK? Why i say this, just phoned my vet, to get some alymycin, for treating some foul of the foots, and been told...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The British Pig and Poultry Fair will return to a new venue for 2024 – the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham.
Event organisers expect to attract over 7,500 visitors and more than 330 exhibitors this year, with stand space nearly sold...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
Kubota (UK) Ltd., has expanded its range of machines suitable for agriculture with the launch of its first telehandler, called the KTH4815.
This is a compact machine which has an overall width of 1.6m and an overall height of below 2m, making it a...
Grain producers, please feed into the consultation for digital grain passports.
Their introduction is likely to disadvantage independent grain traders and result in further consolidation of the grain trade.
As growers we need greater diversity in the grain market not less.
It seem like growers...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has today (Friday, January 19) won a legal challenge in a battle over compensation payable to poultry farmers affected by avian influenza (bird flu).
The union argued that the Animal and Plant Health Agency...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The president and deputy president of Welsh farming union NFU Cymru have been re-elected to lead the union for another two years.
President Aled Jones and deputy president Abi Reader were re-elected at a meeting of the union’s council in Cardiff...
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Coverage of Environment Agency enforcement of farming regulations in the River Wye
Written by Defra Press Office
Today (14 January) there is coverage in the Observer of claims by campaign group River Action about the Environment Agency’s regulation of poultry farms in the River Wye...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
Farmers cannot continue subsidising consumer appetite for cheap food, according to a new report launched at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference.
The report – ‘Is the UK food supply chain broken?’ – names Brexit, the war in Ukraine, the Covid-19...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
Free-range eggs can stay labelled as such throughout mandatory bird flu housing measures under new proposals set out by the UK government today (Tuesday, January 9).
The proposals for England and Scotland, subject to an eight week consultation...
‘Farming is a dirty word now’: the woman helping farmers navigate a grim, uncertain future
Written by Bella Bathurst from the Guardian
In a moment of crisis for the industry, Heather Wildman tours the country helping farmers face up to the toughest of questions – not just about the future of...
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RedTractorStakeholder/
I have just had this bought to my attention.
Red tractor survey to ‘inform’ the reviewers.
first I have heard of it, nothing in the latest member matters, on any email or on social media.
feels like they are trying to keep it quiet as usual.
Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland
Recommendations have been published by university researchers for the reduction of the disease risks posed to public health by intensive pig and poultry farms that are situated in close proximity to each other, known as mixed pig/poultry farms.
This...
Personally it's been a total sh!t storm , everything from March went tits up , even now it continues to take
Might go on the Wassiel in 2 days , burn a few virgins or whatever they do
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