Agri-Business
RAU invests £4.2m in regional businesses and agri-tech entrepreneurs
National Farmers Union (NFU), president Minette Batters, has formally opened the Royal Agricultural University’s (RAU) new home for regional business...
NFU
Dairy
Agricultural drought summit sets agenda for Government action
The farming industry leaders, Government officials and Secretary of State Michael Gove came together this morning for the National Farmers’...
Beef
Rape straw and livestock bedding...is there a solution?
Farmers across the country are being warned not to buy potentially useless bales of rape straw treated with an active...
Rural Life
Changes to National Living Wage 'need to be fair and balanced for farmers'
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is calling for a fair and balanced approach to any increases to the National Living...
Arable
#YourHarvest campaign urges MPs to visit a farm
The NFU will urge MPs to pledge to visit a farm over harvest at the Westminster launch of its ‘#YourHarvest’...
Agri-Business
'Sentences for rural crime must act as a deterrent'
The NFU raised its concerns with the solicitor general that the sentences given for rural crime do not act as a strong...
Agri-Business
NFU and Crimestoppers launch new Rural Crime Reporting Line
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has today launched a new service for farmers and the public to give information anonymously...
Agri Politics
Batters: 'I want British farmers to remain the number one supplier to the UK market'
National Farmers’ Union (NFU) president Minette Batters has written to the Prime Minister calling for clarity and consistency across Government...
Government
Nearly half of farmers say they struggled applying for this year's BPS
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is urging the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) to further simplify the BPS application process as...
Agri-Business
Banks and NFU highlight the need for future investment in farming
British banks have joined forces with the NFU to call on the government to enable investment on farms and to...
Sheep
Livestock worrying: NFU takes plea for law change to Westminster
The NFU has raised the severe impacts livestock worrying can have on farming businesses to the Environment, Farming and Rural...
Environment
Can Brexit be a good thing for the environment?
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has teamed up with Greener UK, a coalition of 13 environmental organisations, to demonstrate how a...
Agri Politics
Batters' message to Government: 'British farmers are able to deliver'
National Farmers’ Union (NFU) president Minette Batters will put British food and farming at the top of the agenda at...
Agri Politics
NFU president to meet Prime Minister Theresa May this week
National Farmers’ Union (NFU) president Minette Batters has announced that she will meet the Prime Minister at Downing Street this...
Rural Life
Could you be one of NFU's new faces of British farming?
A group of enthusiastic young farmers, who are making a real difference within farming and have great stories to tell,...
N.Ireland
'Brexit must herald an agricultural revolution'
The UK’s farming unions have called on the Government to facilitate an ‘agricultural revolution’ post-Brexit – but what exactly does...
N.Ireland
First female NFU president elected at annual conference
Minette Batters has made history becoming the first female president of the National Farmers’ Union. Batters, a beef farmer from...
N.Ireland
First female NFU president elected at annual conference
Minette Batters has made history becoming the first female president of the National Farmers’ Union. Batters, a beef farmer from...
