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Renewable energy
Wall Street turns to ‘solar grazing’ sheep in its push to go green
...“Often it’s as simple as there’s a solar site under construction or constructed and a neighbouring farmer just stops in there and asks questions.”...
April 10, 2024
News in-depthUK local elections
Dorset Tories tell Sunak’s MPs to ‘stay away’ in local election battle
...His opponent at the general election will be the incumbent Tory MP Chris Loder, a farmer’s son and former railway worker, who also stresses his “localness” and understanding of a constituency whose economy...
April 20, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Agricultural commodities
Traders amass big bet on falling grain prices after bumper harvests
...However, the high prices encouraged grain farmers to increase their crop acreage. Brazil produced a bumper crop of corn and soyabeans last year while Russia exported a record amount of wheat last year....
February 28, 2024
Letter
Letter: Climate change curiosity prompts this reader’s plea
...There is a curious sentence in Alice Hancock and Andy Bounds’ excellent Big Read “The power of Europe’s rebel farmers” (February 10) where they write that the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has...
February 23, 2024
GB News
GB News owner pumps in further £41mn in funding as losses widen
...Other directors of All Perspectives include City executive Baroness Helena Morrissey and George Farmer, the son of ex-Conservative party treasurer Lord Farmer and a former chief executive of Parler, the...
March 5, 2024
FT MagazineSimon Kuper
What George Orwell could teach us about Israel and Palestine
...Or recall the way some British newspapers covered Zimbabwe’s collapse as strictly a story about white farmers with British names....
November 9, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
ReviewHistory books
Smoke and Ashes review — Amitav Ghosh on the opium trade
...By 1799, the company’s opium department — for whom George Orwell’s father later worked — wielded a cruel monopoly over more than a million Indian peasant farmer households, deciding how much opium each could...
February 9, 2024
InterviewLunch with the FT
AI scientist Fei-Fei Li: ‘Maths is pretty clean. Humans are messy’
...She had far more resources, a much bigger team of staff and access to everyone from “Japanese cucumber farmers all the way to Fortune 500 companies”....
December 15, 2023
Climate change
How ETFs are bracing for the turbulence of El Niño
...Indonesia has warned of a potential hit to output, while the threat of water shortages has forced Vietnam to instruct farmers to plant their next rice crop earlier than usual....
October 25, 2023
ReviewFilm
Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire film review — ersatz Star Wars is a lumpen let-down
...Cut to farmers in space. If the film weren’t so humourless, you’d suspect a nudge in the ribs was meant by scenes of quasi-medieval tilling....
December 21, 2023
Agricultural commodities
Orange juice futures hit record high after storms ravage Florida crop
...“Farmers are inoculating trees with I do not know what, but it’s not working,” said one soon-to-retire Floridian orange grove owner who asked not to be named. “Plus a lot of the groves are gone....
August 9, 2023
Live news updates from July 12: US inflation slows more than expected, Disney extends Iger’s contract
Olive oil prices surge on dry summer weather in southern Europe
...Prices for olive oil have surged to a fresh all-time high as an extended period of unusually dry summer weather in southern Europe has damaged farmers’ crops, massively denting supplies ahead of this year...
July 12, 2023
Brexit
UK to confirm further delay to post-Brexit border controls
...A government spokesperson said: “The government remains committed to delivering the best border in the world....
August 24, 2023
UK trade
Post-Brexit UK border food checks delayed again on inflation fears
...farmers, who face barriers for their exports which are not being reciprocated on imports from the EU....
August 2, 2023
Mexico
Mexico rescues 32 migrants kidnapped near US border
...Last month there were several incidents of extreme violence in the country, including 11 young people shot dead when gunmen attacked a party and 14 killed when farmers revolted against a criminal group extorting...
January 4, 2024
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business
Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
The Weekend Essay
What’s the point of private members’ clubs?
...Like the old guilds, many centre on professions: Soho House and the Groucho are for media and creatives; the Farmers Club in London is for farmers, the grander sort; the In & Out for the military; society...
March 30, 2024
Agricultural commodities
Record olive oil prices keep climbing after Spanish drought
...but farming groups said they came too late to nourish an increase in the fruit they bore.Juan Vilar, an olive oil analyst and professor at the University of Jaén, said prices were also climbing because farmers...
July 12, 2023
ReviewFashion accessories
The best waterproof men’s boots for town and country
...Another affordable option is Tretorn, the Swedish outdoor brand that started life in 1891 producing galoshes for farmers....
November 27, 2023
HTSI
Horology in the UK
...“Finally, apart from a few lone voices in the wilderness, like the late George Daniels, there are things happening in British watchmaking,” says McDonnell....
November 16, 2023
Sovereign bonds
The world’s oldest living bond
...To maintain the series of dikes and water barriers needed to prevent constant flooding, local potentates, farmers, clergymen and merchants set up a series of regional water boards called Hoogheemraadschap...
August 9, 2023
Moral Money
An unwanted windfall Premium content
...Billionaires including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Michael Bloomberg have also argued that their own tax bills are too low....
February 7, 2024
UK immigration
Sunak refuses to say what number of legal migrants would be ‘acceptable’
...But in the same week Sunak told a gathering of farmers at Downing Street that an extra 10,000 visas would be made available for the agriculture sector — on top of the 45,000 already allocated....
May 19, 2023
Climate change
No rain in Spain pushes olive oil prices to record levels
...The country’s farmers typically produce half of the world’s olive oil, though annual supplies have roughly halved to about 780,000 tonnes in the past 12 months....
April 23, 2023
Transcript
Could a reshuffle revitalise Sunak’s government?
...George ParkerI think you’re right. From a management point of view, you’re better off leaving them there to do a job as a minister....
August 25, 2023
The Big Read
Should governments tax the great boomer wealth transfer?
...“The whole issue is whether we’re focusing on the moderately wealthy — the small business owner, the farmer, the woman who’s had a good career — or whether we’re focused on the billionaire,” says Gale....
April 15, 2024

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