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Supply chains, processors, retailers and the trade deals that decide what farmers are paid. Industry coverage from outside the press release: what's moving, who benefits, who absorbs the cost, and where the next pressure point lands.

  1. Arable

    UK Crop Protection 2026: A Working Grower’s IPM Guide

    UK crop protection in 2026: HSE rules, residue specs, withdrawn actives, IPM in practice. From a working salad and veg grower in Suffolk.

    19 min
  2. Industry

    UK Farm Succession Planning 2026: Beyond the Inheritance Tax Bill

    Farm succession beyond the inheritance tax bill — partnerships, wills, family meetings, lifetime gifting, and the lifestyle reckoning.

    23 min
  3. Industry

    UK Farm Renewable Energy 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide to Solar, Wind, AD and Biomass

    This guide covers the four big farm-scale renewables (solar PV, wind, anaerobic digestion and biomass), the heat pump add-on, the grid-connection.

    24 min
  4. Arable

    UK Precision Agriculture 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide for Salad/Veg and Small Arable

    What earns its keep on a sub-500-acre holding: precision kit for salad/veg and small arable, with SFI 2026, Capital Grants and FETF mapped against it.

    17 min
  5. Arable

    UK Salad and Vegetable Production: A Working Grower’s Guide to 2026

    It covers the economics, agronomy, labour, cold chain and supermarket dynamics that decide whether a salad and vegetable holding clears its costs in 2026,.

    25 min
  6. Industry

    Ni ploughing society raises £1,000 for children’s hospice

    A Northern Ireland ploughing society has raised £1,000 for the only children's hospice serving the region, highlighting the strong tradition of rural.

    5 min
  7. Industry

    Ulster Farmers’ Union Elects New President John McLenaghan at AGM

    A presidential election at the Ulster Farmers’ Union is worth a minute for that reason alone, even if the headline reads like a press release.

    7 min
  8. Industry

    John McLenaghan elected UFU president as union charts new course for

    Ulster Farmers' Union elects Garvagh beef and biogas farmer John McLenaghan as president alongside returning and new deputy presidents at Loughry Campus.

    7 min
  9. Industry

    Agri-BusinessReport: Scotland’s total farm income rises by 24% in 2025

    Scotland's farm income hits record £1.5 billion in 2025, with beef sector leading a 24% surge. What this means for farmers across the UK.

    5 min
  10. Industry

    Natural flystrike methods cut chemical use in farmer-led trial

    Five UK sheep farmers have completed a one-year trial demonstrating that natural flystrike prevention methods can work alongside—or even replace—conventi...

    6 min