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Agricultural production

  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    News in-depthAgricultural commodities
    Olive oil heartlands battle over the industry’s future

    Mega farms are encroaching on a market long dominated by smallholders, as prices remain near record highs

    A person holds recently picked wrinkled olives
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    UK employment
    Labour shortages squeezing UK food supply, warns dairy group Arla

    Wage inflation and end of free movement threaten Britain’s food security, says Danish co-operative

    Workers attaching milking clusters to cows in a dairy farm in Romford, Essex.
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Chemicals
    Europe must push for low CO₂ bread, says fertiliser group chief

    Yara International head calls for more government support in the production of green crop nutrients

    A farmer harvesting wheat in India
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Italian economy
    Prosciutto in peril as Italy struggles to contain swine fever

    Farmers fear for livelihoods as government struggles to stem worst outbreak of virus in decades

    Pigs
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Carbon footprint
    Pink rice serves up alternative to carbon-intensive meat

    Lab-grown proteins can reduce greenhouse gas emissions but are an expensively acquired taste

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The global power of Big Agriculture’s lobbying

    Behind the public image of farming lies a vast industry adept at securing subsidies and exemptions from environmental measures

    Montage image of a tractor, pitch fork, cow and dollar and euro bills
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Agriculture
    US farmers fear prospect of Trump tariffs will add to sector’s burdens

    An intensification of the trade war with China would come on top of price pressures and high interest rates

    Rancher Walter Schweitzer moves his cattle to a fresh pasture near his home in Geyser, Montana
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    FT GuidesClimate tech explained
    Fertiliser

    Making crop nutrients requires a lot of fossil fuels — using hydrogen instead could put an end to that

    A graphic depicts a farming scene with a tractor irrigating seedlings with green drops, while a wind turbine stands nearby
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Climate legislation
    Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture

    Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations

    Cows around a haystack at a farm in Torup, Denmark
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Business confidence among UK farmers at its lowest

    NFU warns government that the country cannot import its way to food security

    Tom Bradshaw
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    ‘Russian fertiliser is the new gas’ for Europe, top producer warns

    Imports of urea into the EU doubled in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    granules of urea
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    News in-depthAgricultural commodities
    Latin American cocoa farmers rush to expand planting as prices spike

    Chocolate ingredient hits record levels on lower African yields and soaring demand

    A man in a blue shirt scoops the beans into sacks
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    News in-depthUK agriculture
    ‘It’s too wet’: UK food security at risk because of record rain, farmers warn

    National Farmers’ Union seeks extra support for growers after England suffers wettest 18 months since 1836

    Luke Abblitt
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can Africa one day help feed the world’s growing population?

    The continent is a big net importer of food but optimists say better seed varieties and greater use of fertilisers are potentially transformational

    A farm worker spreads urea fertiliser over a rice field near Rosso in the Senegal River valley
  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Moves to ban lab-grown meat intensify in Republican US states

    Party spearheads legislation as one lawmaker vows not to ‘eat bugs with Bill Gates’

    A cooked piece of lab-grown chicken breast
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Food security
    Iceland to harvest more corn and less bitcoin, says PM

    Katrín Jakobsdóttir tells the FT the island nation needs food security in a hostile world

    Katrín Jakobsdóttir speaks to media
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    The global downside of European consumers’ green principles

    Environmental trade restrictions now reflect noisy campaigners more than protectionist farmers

    Men work on a palm oil planation in Malaysia. The cost and difficulty of complying with the EU’s deforestation regulation means large producers are likely to displace small farmers in exporting to the lucrative European  market
  • Sunday, 10 March, 2024
    The Big Read
    The precarious future facing Brazil’s new boomtowns

    Agriculture is creating fast wealth and boosting the nation’s economy. But can ‘green gold’ survive an increasingly extreme climate?

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