The industry desk

62 dispatches on file 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.

9 May 202623 min standing

UK Glasshouse and Polytunnel Production 2026: A Working Grower’s Guide

UK glasshouse and polytunnel production in 2026 — heated glass economics, lighting, CO2, hydroponics, IPM, water and labour from a working grower.

9 May 202619 min standing

UK Farm Prices and Agricultural Markets: A Working Farmer’s Guide to Reading the Trade in 2026

This guide explains where UK farm prices come from in 2026, who actually publishes them, how to read the daily and weekly numbers across cereals, beef,…

9 May 20266 min standing

Clarkson expands Diddly Squat brand with major Ocado partnership

Ocado Partnership — Tim’s take: There’s a peculiar irony in watching a man who once drove tractors on television for entertainment now ship his farm p...

8 May 202618 min standing

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UK crop protection in 2026: HSE rules, residue specs, withdrawn actives, IPM in practice.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.

8 May 202622 min standing

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.

7 May 202623 min standing

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.

7 May 202616 min standing

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.

7 May 202624 min standing

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,.

2 May 20267 min standing

John McLenaghan elected UFU president as union charts new course

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

1 May 20265 min standing

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.

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