Ashfield is one of those places politicians call “left behind”. Once a mining area, this post-industrial slice of Nottinghamshire has, like many others, had to find a new purpose since the pits closed ...

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POOLEY BRIDGE, England — With the number of cases rising like flood waters in an unrelenting storm, foot-and-mouth disease has cut a swath of economic devastation through the heart of Britain’s ...

Privately-owned UK vertical farming business Jones Food Company has opened its second growing site for herbs and leafy greens. The so-called JFC2 project in Lydney, Gloucestershire, got off the ground ...

(RNS) — At Sadeh, a farm in Kent, Talia Chain and her small staff are reconnecting Judaism with its agricultural roots and biblical principles of growing food. (RNS) — In the largely rural society of ...

Once upon a time in Britain, moors were covered in golden wheat and vineyards flourished. Now, farmers are flirting with England's first tea crop.... The British really love their tea. It often trumps ...

THE FIELD is in Hertfordshire, but it could be almost anywhere in lowland England. It is 600m wide and twice as long. On its northern edge is a frail, gappy hedgerow that would not stop a car, let ...

OXFORD, England (Reuters) - An agriculture bill is to be introduced in Britain's parliament later this month as the country prepares to develop its own farm policy for the first time in decades, ...

In the bucolic southwestern county of Cornwall, demand is soaring as Britons ‘re-evaluate their lifestyles’ amid the pandemic. 22 Photos View Slide Show › By Lisa Prevost This seven-bedroom property ...

Either way, those lining up against the reform see it as an existential threat. “People will come to realise this is a ‘closure of the mines’ moment for UK agriculture,” Staffordshire farmer Clive ...