Category: Agriculture
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Mossgiel Organic Dairy has added three farms in northern Scotland to its supply network, increasing milk capacity by more than 10% as it builds a broader organic sourcing base.
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FDF now expects much sharper food price rises this year. Its revised forecast points to 9% to 10% food and non-alcoholic drink inflation by December 2026, up from a previous 3.2% outlook.
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Food Terminal Inc. is seeking broader private-sector buying support for onion growers in Occidental Mindoro as harvest pressure and limited storage capacity strain the market.
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NuCicer and Stricks Ag are moving high-protein chickpeas into commercial scale, linking breeding, acreage, processing, and ingredient market development in one supply programme.
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Domino has launched dedicated coding equipment for high-speed egg lines. Its new Egg Pack Printing Traverser combines TIJ printheads with a traverser platform built for multi-lane graders, aiming to raise print consistency, traceability, and throughput on packed eggs.
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Cellulose absorbent developer Elea & Lili has secured seed funding. The company will use €2.5 million to industrialise a biodegradable alternative to fossil-based absorbents used in hygiene and agricultural water-retention products.
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Defra’s Land Use Framework gives food production a firmer place in England’s land policy, but the next test will be how those commitments translate into incentives, planning decisions and protection for productive land.
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Europe’s rice sector is pressing Brussels for faster trade action. Producer and milling groups say rising imports, weak paddy prices and mounting cost and compliance pressures are pushing production towards an unviable point in several member states.
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Researchers have automated broiler feeding analysis with high-speed machine vision. A study from São Paulo validated a YOLOv8-SAM pipeline that converts beak motion into live kinematic data, linking feed particle size to ingestion effort and opening a route toward digitally modelled poultry feeding.
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Defra has unveiled £345 million to boost farm productivity nationwide. The package spans equipment grants, innovation funding, and capital support, alongside a revised Sustainable Farming Incentive offer.