Milk Week: Week 37 of BigBarn’s food & Drink Weeks

The Milk crisis has quite rightly made the news, and the subject of our blogs recently. Dairy farmers are fighting for survival and the…
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The Milk crisis has quite rightly made the news, and the subject of our blogs recently. Dairy farmers are fighting for survival and the…
Read MoreOlive oil prices are expected to double due to the current world shortage of olives. Olive oil lovers are worrying about the…
Read MoreA farming friend of mine is setting up a huge chicken shed, should he feel guilty, or should consumers feel guilty buying the factory…
Read MoreWe wrote 18 months ago about Tesco becoming complacent when promoting an offer ‘1 for £1 or 2 for £2’. To us…
Read MoreA farmer taking his cow to the supermarket to buy his milk back and give it to local people! That’s how mad the food…
Read MoreIf you’re lucky enough to have your own orchard you will have noticed your apples and pears starting to appear in abundance on the…
Read MoreFarmers are being advised to spray the chemical Roundup on their mature milling wheat to aid ripening and increase the final protein quality. Will…
Read MoreWe are told so often not to eat oil because it is bad for you but in fact it isn’t. Rapeseed oil is an…
Read MoreChina is building a 100,000 cow dairy unit to supply Russian market. In the UK pasture farmer sells his raw milk locally and makes…
Read MoreSome highly commercial farm shops have become more like supermarkets with a huge range of products from hundreds of suppliers. So, can a supermarket…
Read MoreI took this picture yesterday when I recognised the beautiful setting. I then spotted the sheep and realised that sheep farming contributed to the…
Read MoreThere are around 50 billion chickens in the world but…
Read MoreFor many of us diving in a getting our hands dirty in the garden is more than just about saving money, it’s about the…
Read MoreSwallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets BigBarn hero, Joanna Blythman went undercover and gained unprecedented access to the food industry in writing…
Read MoreBigBarn has just unveiled a brand…
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