Arable
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.
From the fields and beyond
UK farming industry news
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.
Arable
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, s...
Industry
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...
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UK crop protection in 2026: HSE rules, residue specs, withdrawn actives, IPM in practice.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.
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.
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.
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.
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,.
Industry
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.
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.
