KFC is the first fast food chain to sign up to standards that include lower stocking densities and more enrichment. Is this move likely to precipitate…
Month: August 2019
The seemingly never-ending fiasco over the Renewable Heat Incentive in Northern Ireland is continuing to drive poultry farmers to despair Three years on, one public inquiry…
In its new global study, Cargill found consumers had a hard-to-satisfy wish list for those who put food on our tables—with most claiming to feel knowledgeable…
The NFU in the North East is building on its initial support for flood-affected farmers in the Yorkshire Dales as work begins to help the area…
A fourth national round of the popular Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund opened on 5 August for applications. Groups of farmers and landowners will be able to…
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is to look into the state of peatland in England. 80% of UK peatland is in a damaged and…
Farmers and rural dwellers in Northern Ireland are on high alert as the threat of crime in rural areas continues to plague them. NFU Mutual’s latest…
Northern Ireland’s leading civic society organisations have issued a joint statement calling for what they described as “the imminent potential disaster” of a no deal Brexit…
Former NFU President Sir Simon Gourlay, a passionate moderniser whose reforms changed the way the organisation operated for the better, has died at the age of…
Gressingham Game is to move production of its core lines from its Brompton site to its Gressingham Foods production site at Grange Farm Redgrave with immediate…