All Farming articles – Page 18
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Wet weather causing problems with UK harvest, growers warn
The damp and cold weather in July, caused by the jet stream being stuck to the south of the UK, has prompted challenges with the harvest of cereals and root vegetables
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Tesco provides further £10m backing for UK egg farmers
Tesco has also lifted buying restrictions on shell eggs, which previously limited customers to buying three packs of eggs at a time
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Earth & Wheat declares ‘war on fruit waste’ with introduction of fruit boxes
The 5kg box includes variations of fruit such as apples, pears, oranges, satsumas, melons, passionfruit, kiwi, mangos, and nectarines and launches today
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Freshways launches sustainability initiative for business and farmers
The dairy supplier has implemented a carbon emissions baseline for its farmers and new business standards
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2 Sisters firmly in the red amid supply chain woes
Turnover improvements were largely driven by inflation, said the business, which warned inflationary pressures had continued into 2023
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Comment and Opinion
Defra won’t get far without mandatory food waste reporting
The last remnants of Defra’s “world-leading” environmental policies spilled out on Friday, when a whole series of documents were dumped on its website
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Lack of fertiliser self-sufficiency a risk to food security
The Commons Efra Committee said the government had not ’set out the steps it will take to protect domestic production of nitrogen fertiliser and [the] ammonia used in it’
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Cereal crops decimated by Europe’s heatwave
The 2023 European cereal harvest is set to be its lowest since 2007, some 9.5% lower than the five-year average, while other weather-beaten commodities have also taken a hit
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Noble Foods reports £11m loss in tough year for egg sector
Accounts posted at Companies House for Noble Foods Ltd showed an operating loss of £10.9m for the year to 30 September 2022
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Food security alert after Ukraine grain deal falls through
Russia this week pulled out of the deal, which had allowed the safe passage of Ukrainian wheat shipments from ports on its coast
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Defra director David Kennedy to leave for private sector role
Kennedy spent six years at Defra and eight years in total in the civil service, and is now moving on to a role at EY
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Arla and Asda extend own label dairy supply deal
The tie-up was described by the pair as ’the UK’s largest private label dairy contract’
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‘Profiteering’ fertiliser companies key drivers of food inflation, study claims
The UK’s three main fertiliser companies saw profits rise by 500% from 2020 to 2022, a thinktank has claimed
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Fischer Farms launches trial of vertically farmed strawberries
The agri-tech company has announced trials have started at its dedicated research and development farm in Litchfield
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Category Report
Is this the new organic era?
Despite cost of living pressures, retailers are honing their organic ranges – while Planet Organic is plotting a successful comeback
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Driscoll’s expands rollout of paper berry packaging into Asda and Booths
The packaging solution had seen an ’overwhelmingly positive response’ from customers, helping significantly reduce plastic use, Driscoll’s said
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Morrisons interrogates farm soil data in net zero effort
The supermarket is working with Downforce Technologies to measure and monitor the carbon stored within soil
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AHDB CEO Tim Rycroft to step down later this year
Ex-FDF COO Rycroft said it was ‘the right time to leave’ after a two-year spell at the levy board
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Farmers handed power to challenge supermarket milk prices
The long-awaited new regulations were designed to ’promote fairness and transparency across the dairy sector’, Defra said
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Egg sector warns of battery egg import threat from Pacific trade deal
The UK government had ignored calls to give eggs Sensitive Product Status in the trade deal, which would maintain tariffs on imports of eggs produced to lower standards