Faced with cheap, often subsidised, imports, many local dairy farmers have quit production in recent years.

Demand for plant milk has fed off café culture.

It would be overkill to say that the carrot you eat today has very little nutrition in it—especially compared to some of the other less healthy foods you likely also eat—but it is true that fruits and vegetables grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today.

Cargill UK is to roll out live temperature and humidity data at 30 dairy units following useful insights from a similar initiative that was trialled in Germany and the Netherlands.

The impact of fluctuating weather conditions has been evident throughout agricultural markets over the past decades. Dairy production in South Africa is responsive to the growing domestic and regional demand but is also sensitive to the producer price.

It’s a common misconception that brown eggs are somehow better than white eggs. In fact, brown eggs aren’t any healthier than white eggs, but eggs, in general, are not all the same.