British cucumber grower hit by cheap imports
Farmers Weekly A British cucumber grower fears for the future of his business due to the growing threat of cheap food imports. Tony Montalbano, a third-generation cucumber grower from Green Acres Salads in Roydon, Essex, said domestic markets are being flooded with cucumbers from the Netherlands and other countries and it is affecting his sales. […]
Video: CCTV captures GPS kit being stolen
Farmers Weekly Thieves stole four tractor domes and a GPS screen from a Leicestershire arable and poultry farmer. Will Oliver said two men took £25,000 worth of kit in the overnight raid at his farm near Market Bosworth on Thursday 18 May. The men entered the farmyard on foot around midnight and were captured on […]
Opinion: River Lugg case indicates ‘flexing of statutory muscle’
Farmers Weekly The punishment given recently to the Herefordshire farmer who took some heavy machinery to a stretch of the River Lugg site of special scientific interest (SSSI) is a throwback to when I started my job in 1984 and a Kent farmer who ignored an SSSI designation also got a jail sentence. Back then, […]
This Week in Farming: Food Summit, forage and trees
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to another edition of This Week in Farming, your regular round-up of farming’s hottest topics. Here’s five of our biggest discussion points from the past seven days and a look ahead to what’s coming up in this week’s podcast. Sunak’s Farm to Fork Food Summit This week marked the culmination […]
NFU seeks stronger link between farmers and hospitality sector
Farmers Weekly Farmers and food producers are being urged to work collaboratively with hospitality businesses in their area, to help them build British produce into their brand identity. Called Food, farming and hospitality: Why the British story matters, a new report from the NFU outlines the ways that British-sourced produce can add value to hospitality […]
GPS theft rate doubles between January and April 2023
Farmers Weekly The cost of GPS thefts has doubled in the first four months of this year, according to rural insurer NFU Mutual. April was found to be the second-worst month on record for GPS thefts, with fears that this season’s harvest could be affected if the current trend continues. Latest data show that losses […]
Herefordshire farmer who damaged River Lugg has jail term cut
Farmers Weekly It has been almost seven years since the EU referendum took place across Britain, resulting in the country voting for Brexit. On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48%. But the majority of voters in London, Scotland, and Northern Ireland wished to remain. With the seventh […]
Brexit poll: have your say, seven years on
Farmers Weekly It has been almost seven years since the EU referendum took place across Britain, resulting in the country voting for Brexit. On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48%. But the majority of voters in London, Scotland, and Northern Ireland wished to remain. With the seventh […]