Category: Agriculture
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Avara Foods faces High Court action over river pollution allegations.
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JDE Peet’s and Airbus are using satellite imagery and AI to map coffee plantations across East Africa, creating an open geospatial dataset designed to support deforestation-free coffee sourcing and reduce risk across global coffee supply chains.
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2 Sisters Food Group is increasing the use of British-grown oilseed rape and beans in poultry feed, reducing imported soymeal exposure and adding a projected £50 million boost to UK agriculture.
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Aldi will invest £1.1 billion in British egg production over five years through longer-term supplier agreements designed to support continuity and farm investment.
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AutoFlight has tested an air-rail tea logistics model. The Guizhou trial linked autonomous eVTOL cargo flight with high-speed rail to move tea to Shanghai within 24 hours.
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Fertiliser costs are pressuring bread wheat protein levels. Higher nitrogen prices are reviving concerns over milling quality, flour performance, and bakery consistency later in the season.
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Tesco and RenEco have started processing surplus bakery and produce at Chelveston into animal feed, with the site designed to handle packaged materials and bulk volumes from food manufacturing as well as store returns.
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Rothamsted Research has developed gene-edited wheat with sharply lower free asparagine, opening a route to reduced acrylamide formation in bread, biscuits, and crisps without the yield penalties seen in conventional mutation approaches.
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AIC has set out new fertiliser priorities for ministers. Finance, CBAM clarity, and market visibility remain central to the UK input outlook.
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A new supply-chain coalition is forming ahead of key EUDR milestones. The move sharpens the debate over traceability, smallholder inclusion, and workable compliance for food ingredient supply chains.