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A petition launched in February by the NFU calling on the government to preserve and protect UK food standards against the threat posed by future imports of lower standard food has attracted one million signatures from the British public. The milestone was passed soon after an Agriculture Bill amendment which...

Cereals Event organisers, Comexposium, claim the online version of this year’s event held on 10 and 11 June was a resounding success, attracting over 10,000 visitors from all over the world. With the traditional show cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the decision was taken to deliver as much content...

SALTEX, one of the biggest events in the grounds care industry’s calendar, is the latest show to fall victim to the coronavirus outbreak. Originally scheduled for November this year, the exhibition has been postponed until spring next year and will now be held on 3rd and 4th March at the...

New tractor (50hp +) registrations for the month of May declined sharply compared with the corresponding figure from last year as the effects of the coronavirus outbreak took its toll. According to the Agricultural Engineers’ Association’s (AEA) monthly report, just 586 tractors were registered last month as opposed to 1008...

Only a few weeks ago, in the absence of the vast army of seasonal workers from overseas that farmers and growers have come to rely on, the Pick for Britain campaign was launched with the objective of recruiting some 70,000 UK workers to harvest fruit and vegetables over the spring,...

As Forrest Gump famously said: “Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get!” Right now, exactly the same could be said of the British weather. After the drenching suffered in autumn last year across the country, when many farmers struggled to get their...