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A last minute Brexit deal meaning trade with the EU can continue with zero tariffs and quotas has brought some comfort to British farmers but there are still big concerns over seed potato exports.

A recent survey of food and drink manufacturers has found 43 per cent of those currently supplying Northern Ireland are planning not to do so in the first three months after the end of the Brexit transition period.

January 2021 Arable Farming Issue

Spring bean varieties LG Viper, LG Sphinx and Allison have joined winter bean Norton on the PGRO’s 2021 Descriptive List.

Keynote speaker at Agri-TechE’s REAP 2020 conference, Prof David Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington and author of ‘Growing a Revolution’, has a global view of soil health.

By Hannah Binns and Alex Black In a year like no other, the farming community demonstrated unwavering strength and resilience in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, powering on despite lockdown to keep the country fed.

The former Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon has been appointed chairwoman of Assured Food Standards, the operator of Red Tractor, from January 1.

There may be hiccups in supplies of imported fresh produce from border closures and Brexit but British producers will keep the shelves full

Reductions have been seen for UK wheat, barley and oilseed rape production in Defra’s final estimates for the 2020 crop, updating the provisional figures published in October.