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There are various options available to grow a good quality maize crop while still meeting environmental goals. Farmers Guardian reports.

The application window for the Government’s Lump Sum Exit Scheme has now opened to help farmers exit the sector in a ‘managed’ way.

A portable ‘black box’, which can be used by farmers, vets and semen-processing laboratories to determine the quality of semen within minutes has been developed.

Exclusive contracts that only allow dairy farmers to sell milk to one buyer should be broken up to free up farmers to try direct selling, supplying local food businesses and engaging much more with communities where they live, according to farmers taking part in a workshop at Dairy-Tech.

Irish pasteurising equipment manufacturer Unison has launched a modular dairy vending system which includes pasteurising, chilling, intermediate bulk tanks and a customer vending station.

Dairy-Tech once again took place at Stoneleigh Park where visitors were able to view new technology and discuss the issues having an impact on the industry currently. Katie Jones, Ellie Layton, Toby Whatley and Jonathan Wheeler report.

More than 10,000 levy paying AHDB members have seized the chance to vote on how their money is spent by signing up to the board’s Shape the Future campaign.

Rosie Bennett, 27, is from Honiton, Devon. She is a dairy and poultry farmer’s daughter and works as a manager at an agricultural specialist accountants Evolution ABS Limited.

There is a real danger Red Tractor (RT) could become Defra’s policing body, making the assurance schemeÌý‘more compulsory than voluntary’, farmers fear.Ìý

Fake meat will not save the planet and risks entrenching domination of food systems by giant ag-corporations, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES) has warned.Ìý