farm business

With upland farmers concerned for the future, reporter Rachael Brown looks at the sheep market.

More than half of farmers still do not have a succession plan, with ongoing uncertainty hampering efforts to ‘proper plans'

Farmers Guardian’s first Farm Futures Exchange saw speakers with experience in various diversifications share their advice and top tips with Farm Futures members, as part of a digital roundtable.

UK politicians have been urged to follow EU law to ensure dairy terms are protected from manufacturers of plant-based products which trade under dairy names and use dairy values to sell products but ‘have very little in common with dairy at all’

The Farm Resilience Programme has benefited nearly 1,400 families across the UK and has a particular focus on small family farms

The EU-spec SPP gained 0.09p/kg to reach 224.98p/kg during the week ended July 22

Farmers must change their mindset and focus on the ‘economics of the farm', or risk an ‘unsustainable and unviable future', a consultant warns

A survey by the NFU shows 1 in 20 farmers do not have reliable outdoor mobile signal on the farm at all.

Farmers need to ask themselves where they want their business to be in 10 years’ time if they wanted to take control and manage change before it manages them.

As feed and other input costs continue remain high, Cedric Porter takes a look at the impact on the pig and poultry sector.