farming news
7 storiesForty-one family farms have pooled €9.5m to turn part of their milk into hard cheese and butter, aiming to earn more per litre than selling it to large processors.
Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field.
Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer.
From Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations.
A farm that once grew only cereals now plants 14 varieties of pumpkin and squash, and turns its fields over to visitors for four weeks every autumn.
A shared online platform run by the growers' cooperative has matched more than 80 farms with regional mills on fixed-price deals, offering both sides shelter from swings in the commodity market.
Farmers in the Asher Valley have brought in a wheat crop well above recent averages, figures from the Growers' Cooperative show, after a dry, warm finish to the summer rescued fields that were waterlogged at sowing.
