More than 100 organisations, including some of Britain’s largest supermarkets, have urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce a Good Food Bill that would place food security, public health and the resilience of the country’s food system on a statutory footing. Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Aldi, Co-op, Waitrose and Booths are among the signatories, collectively representing more than 64 per cent of the grocery market, according to the campaign. They have been joined by manufacture

Britain’s services sector has recorded its longest sustained period of job losses since the global financial crisis, intensifying concern about the mounting cost pressures facing employers across the fresh produce supply chain. The latest S&P Global UK Services Purchasing Managers’ Index showed that employment fell for the 22nd consecutive month in July. That matches the length of the downturn recorded during the financial crisis almost two decades ago, although the pace of w

A new grower-led project is turning to artificial intelligence and smart trapping technology to help British onion and brassica producers detect damaging pests before they take a costly bite out of yields. TRACER-Pest will combine field-based cameras, machine learning and real-time data analysis to identify and track bean seed fly and swede midge — two pests capable of causing significant commercial losses but notoriously difficult to monitor using conventional methods. The t