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Agriculture

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    John Gapper
    James Dyson is right to fight for British strawberries

    The UK’s largest commercial farmer is trying to create a berry brand against intense global competition

    Dan Stockhill programming the robot picking arm machines
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Farmers gather in Whitehall in latest protest against UK Budget tax changes

    Tractors park up in main London thoroughfare in rally opposing government inheritance tax reforms

    Tractors are driven through Westminster on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Agricultural production
    EU’s new agriculture chief seeks more funds for small farmers

    Christophe Hansen seeks changes to bloc’s multibillion-euro farm subsidy scheme

    Farmers protesting in Carcassonne, southern France
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    The politics of land is fundamental to the UK

    Farming row reveals the absence of any strategic thinking about how we use it

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a tractor surrounded by fields and hedgerows with price tags on them
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    How to Feed the World — environmental food for thought

    Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil crunches the numbers around how we farm, eat and waste food — and proposes sustainable solutions

    A herd of cattle facing the camera from behind a wire fence
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Renewable energy
    US farmers protest against climate law loophole subverting green fuel crops

    American imports of used Chinese cooking oil as a biofuel feedstock have surged since passage of Inflation Reduction Act

    Soyabeans are harvested from a field on Hodgen Farm in Roachdale, Indiana, US
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Jo Ellison
    Confessions of a farmer’s daughter

    I know the benefits of agricultural relief

    A group of people with a love British farming sign stand in front of a yellow tractor
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    The Big Question
    The Big Question: Should farmers have to pay inheritance tax?

    The government says the levy targets landowners seeking to shelter wealth, but food producers say it will hit them hard

    FT montage of a tractor and ‘No farmers, No food’ protest banners with a large question mark between them
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    How gangsters took over Gaza’s aid routes

    Armed thieves who raid UN trucks are acting with Israel’s tacit support, officials say

    Montage of Gaza map, aid route, Yasser Abu Shabab and Shadi Soufi
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Thousands of farmers protest in London against tax changes

    Union leader tells rally inheritance tax reforms are ‘kick in the teeth’ for the struggling sector

    A large crowd of farmers gathers at Whitehall, holding bright yellow signs that read "No Farmers No Food."
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Inheritance tax change is just one of many worries for UK farmers

    Climate change, wafer-thin margins and the prospect of post-Brexit trade deals pile pressure on agricultural sector

    Montage shows protester holding a banner that reads ‘no farmers, no food’ against a data background.
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    News in-depthJames Dyson
    How James Dyson’s farming empire may be hit by £120mn in death duties

    Billionaire known for vacuums and hairdryers has become one of UK’s largest farmers

  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Scotland
    Scotland’s ‘industrial-scale’ forestry triggers opposition in border town

    Campaigners say fast-expanding spruce plantations are pushing out farmers and native tree species

    Campaigners Archie Hyslop and Barbara Hill stand near spruce trees in Langholm, Scotland on October 28 2024
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Gardens
    Adventures in Arctic gardening

    In Norway’s far north, farmers and growers are finding ways to thrive. Their hard-won wisdom — practical, scientific and philosophical — has increasing resonance for us all

    A white farmhouse with a red metal roof sits in a dramatic landscape, dominated by the mountains behind, their peaks shrouded in cloud. In front of the farmhouse is a field in which food is growing. To one side there is some red farm equipment.
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    British farming needs a clearer future

    A furore over inheritance tax is obscuring more fundamental questions

    Spinach harvesting on farmland near Dorchester, in southern England
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    Tom Bradshaw
    British farmers have nothing left to give

    The Budget’s new IHT measures demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of how our agriculture works

    Hills and farmland in rural mid Wales.
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    News in-depthUK agriculture
    Farmers lose sleep over Budget inheritance tax crackdown

    Reforms will put emphasis on early succession planning for agricultural estates

    Nick Hutton
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Farmers with assets over £1mn hit by inheritance tax reforms

    Industry counters that Budget cap will hammer agricultural businesses that are asset-rich but cash-poor

    Tractor ploughing in Northants
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Environment
    Pharma and agritech groups push against biodiversity levy at UN summit

    One contentious proposal seeks to impose 1% levy on returns from products made using genetic data

    Stilt walkers in colourful costumes perform during a parade. A crowd of spectators, some holding flags and taking photos, watches the performance.
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    UK-EU ‘reset’ talks delayed until next year

    Negotiations expected to focus on post-Brexit fishing rights and electricity trading arrangements, which expire in 2026

    An anti-Brexit protester waves the EU and union flags outside the Houses of Parliament in June 2016
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    News in-depthGlobal trade
    Chinese imports damage ‘dignity’ of Italian tomato, says Mutti chief

    Boss of tomato sauce group urges Brussels to protect farmers hit by ‘unfair’ competition from China’s Xinjiang region

    An aerial view shows a tractor harvesting tomatoes
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    Animal welfare
    Most UK animal welfare violations not prosecuted as enforcement breaks down, says report

    Majority of farm inspections are carried out by industry-led assurance schemes, according to Social Market Foundation

    Cows at a feeder
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    UN warns it will run out of food for northern Gaza in week and a half

    World Food Programme sounds alarm after US told Israel dire humanitarian conditions could put its military aid at risk

    Children stand in a queue holding pots and pans
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Place of Tides by James Rebanks — an elegiac tale of the ‘duck women’ of the far north

    ‘The Shepherd’s Life’ author leaves behind the Lake District to seek sanctuary and renewal on a remote Norwegian archipelago

    Portrait of two eider ducks
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    UK agriculture
    UK farmers forced to cut food production to stay viable, warns NFU

    Terrible harvest and falling subsidies force businesses to embrace greener alternatives, says Tom Bradshaw

    Tom Bradshaw, President of the NFU on his farm near Colchester
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