Arable
AHDB’s Early Bird predicts 1.7mha wheat crop
The first AHDB Early Bird Survey (EBS) of winter crop plantings in the UK for harvest 2024 predicts a small drop in the winter wheat area, a 16% lower oilseed rape area and 13% increase in spring barley sowing. The survey data is...
United Oilseeds warns of 15% crop area cut for 2024
United Oilseeds, reporting a 30% full year profit increase, has warned that UK oilseed crop production for 2024 could fall below a million tonnes for only the second time since the Millenium. The co-operative has reported an EBITDA...
Arla executive to lead the AHDB
Graham Wilkinson, global vice president agriculture at Arla Foods, is to be the new chief executive of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). He succeeds Tim Rycroft, the former Food and Drink Federation...
AIC calls for a UK food security body
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) is calling for a new, independent UK Food Security Committee to help to improve the nation’s agri-food productivity, which lags other leading countries, and to lift sustainable food...
Origin estimates UK winter wheat crop at 1.5m ha
Origin Enterprises, the Dublin-based parent company to Agrii and Origin Fertilisers, estimates that the wet autumn could reduce the UK 2024 winter wheat crop plantings by at least 300,000 hectares. In a first quarter trading...
Social media and trust in business: Comment
Two episodes this month have shown how easy it is to lose business trust in an age of instant communications. Proposals to add a voluntary environmental module to the Red Tractor farm assurance scheme caused a rapid farmer response,...
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