An advisor to the British government has warned the cost of living crisis, Brexit and government complacency risks creating perfect conditions for fraudsters to exploit the food chain — ten years on from the horse meat meat scandal. Professor Chris Elliot, an expert in food safety from Queens University Belfast…

POUND for pound it is more expensive than gold, but two decades ago Spain’s golden crop was on the verge of disappearing. Price volatility and cheap imports from Iran had driven the country’s saffron producers to the brink, causing production to plummet from a high of 50,000kg in the 1980s to just 100kg in the late 1990s. Thankfully, producers such as Antonio Delgado decided to take matters into their own hands, creating…

Playing cupid to cows isn’t what you’d call a traditional agricultural job, but agri-tech company SellMyLivestock aren’t ones for doing things the conventional way. The UK-based start-up made headlines around the world last Valentine’s Day after they launched ‘Tudder’, a Tinder-inspired dating app designed to help farmers match potential partners…

For the majority of UK consumers, when it comes to food, the coronavirus pandemic will be defined by empty supermarket shelves, long queues, and a rediscovered love for home baking. But while supply chains may have responded quickly to increased demand and changing shopping habits, the long-term impacts of COVID-19…

Growing vegetables in thin air might sound like something from a sci-fi film, but for British agri-tech start-up LettUs Grow, this is farming fact, not fiction. Concerned by growing demands on natural resources and staggering levels of food waste around the world, Bristol University graduates Jack Farmer, Ben Crowther and…

From dairy farmers tipping away millions of litres of milk to crops going unpicked thanks to staff shortages, there have been few — if any — UK farm businesses who haven’t been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. For an industry that has already been dealing with uncertainty caused by Brexit…

An online subscription service which delivers milk to Bollywood stars has helped an entrepreneurial farming family build one of the biggest dairies in India. Parag Milk Foods processes and hand-delivers chilled milk from its dairy farm in Manchar to almost 50,000 consumers across some of India’s biggest cities. Sold under…

From burping cows to grazing sheep, when it comes to global warming the finger of blame is invariably pointed at the livestock industry these days. Animal agriculture is causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to rise, say critics, and if we’re serious about tackling climate change then we need to cut…

When it comes to high-yielding soya production, the Netherlands probably isn’t the first country that springs to mind. But a group of innovative Dutch growers are proving that farmers in northwestern Europe have the soils, climate and skills to produce soya crops to even rival those grown in South America. …