Editorial
Comment: Putting Ince fertiliser plant closure into context
The recent decision by CF Industries to close one of its UK fertiliser factories at Ince and consolidate production at Billingham, reduces the UK to a single ammonium nitrate (AN) manufacturing facility. The decision has caused some...
Comment: Government must lead on farm costs crisis
The UK agri-food chain is experiencing seismic changes in farm input availability and costs - and yet government seems remarkably unconcerned. The highest rate of inflation for 30 years, caused by post pandemic recovery factors, the...
Comment: Tipping point for the global agrifood chain?
This editorial was going to discuss the gap between Defra’s funding of food production and environmental measures, following George Eustice’s hapless performance at the recent NFU conference. But that already seems like ancient...
Industry can’t absorb agrifood inflation
Rising energy and commodity price inflation must be passed on to consumers, not absorbed at primary producer level, if economic damage to a changing UK farming sector is to be avoided. The last six months have seen unprecedented...
Farmers need help with carbon measurement
Over half the farmers in the UK and Ireland don’t know how to measure carbon on their units, with three quarters not knowing who to trust to perform this service. These are the findings of a survey undertaken by...
Farmers seek feed and fertiliser savings post-BPS
While almost a quarter of farm businesses in the UK intend to reduce expenditure on fertiliser and feed as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) area-based farm support is phased out, two-thirds have not made any...