Mr Munro said the gross price of malting barley — which his farm has produced for the Scotch whisky industry for over 240 years — has dropped from £252.56 per tonne in 2023 to £181.63 in 2025, a fall ...

Scotland’s hill farms are giving way to wind energy as beef and sheep sectors face economic and ecological challenges.

Bairds Malt’s data shows that fertiliser use and soil management are the biggest sources of carbon emissions on barley farms, accounting for around 38 percent of total CO₂ per tonne. When emissions ...

Whiskey news from J. Henry, State Line, Great Lakes, Central Waters and more ... including some holiday gift ideas!

The UN’s World Food Programme has a reputation for handing out large quantities of food in disaster zones and then moving on.

After last year’s low yields, it should provide some comfort for farmers such as Charles Bracey. But this year it does not.

Despite personal tragedies and misfortune, the Gregson brothers shaped Austin’s milling industry, laying the foundation for ...

On a quiet November evening in San Francisco, something happened that nobody in the bourbon world saw coming. A small family ...

Joe McGirr reflects on how his "labour of love" has risen to one of the leading suppliers of quality gins around the world ...

Sparkler, a new Group 4 Soft wheat with a very high UK treated yield of 106%, has joined the 2026/27 Recommended List (RL) as the highest yielding UK Soft feed variety confirms Kurtis Scarboro, Crop ...

I find November a bleak time of year for several reasons which have nothing to do with the seasons or the weather. No, it’s about the daily diet of rubbish we are dealt each day in the media, which ...