Dairies have announced November price drops

Profits on dairy farms were forecast to plunge by more than a half this milk year, as lower prices and stubbornly high costs combine, warned accountants Old Mill and the Farm Consultancy Group at this week's Dairy Show

There has been a narrowing of the gap between retail food inflation and farmgate inflation, but the price rise in the shops has still been much higher than on the farm for many key products

Milk prices may have stabilised in the last few months, but it could be some time before they increase as wholesale prices around the world remain under pressure

Belgium’s potato industry is investing in more processing outside the country, partly to satisfy demand from the UK

The Canary Islands have imposed a ban on all UK seed and ware potato imports following the discovery of Colorado beetles in Kent and Hampshire over the summer.

Fertiliser prices have risen alongside a recent increase in the red diesel price

With the sector recovering following two and a half years of crisis, Cedric Porter takes a look at the prospects in the pig sector.