A new centre of excellence for plant research is planned in China following a joint symposium in Shanghai between researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the John Innes Centre in Norwich UK.

Suffolk Agricultural Association reports that the Suffolk Farm Business Competition is back again in 2012 and will be bigger and better than ever with a slightly new format.

Agricultural buying group Anglia Farmers Limited boosted turnover 24 per cent to £207.3 million in the year to January 31.

A feeding frenzy for good blocks of arable land in the UK has seen prices rocket from £2,500 an acre in 2002 to £8,000 in 2012 – higher in specific instances – a rise of over 300 per cent in 10 years.

The East of England has gone back to its roots as an agricultural heartland with agri-businesses named as the two biggest profit-making companies in the region, according to the Sunday Times PwC Profit Track 100 league table publishing this weekend.

Partners with 50 years of collective experience in all aspects of the farming and property sectors, have formed a new agricultural agency for the Eastern Region, Land Partners LLP - and have a buoyant farmland market to start the business.

Farmers discovered how renewable energy could help them cut costs and increase income at a major conference held in the east of England.

Cambridgeshire based Wellgrain, one of the UK’s leading privately owned traders of combinable crops, has secured a £12 million Asset Based Lending (ABL) funding package from RBS Invoice Finance to support the growth of the company’s future sales.

A new £20 million fund for UK farmers has been launched, countering pressure on agricultural funding and doubt over the future of the Single Farm Payment.

Anglia Farmers, the UK agricultural buying group, has reported the largest annual intake for its graduate training programme – holding out promise for the future of farm management in East Anglia.

Agricultural buying group Anglia Farmers has moved swiftly to forestall the chaos that could follow a proposal to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board.

An update on a £50 million ‘green’ fund for farmers will be given at a free event called ‘The Business of Farming’ at the Huntingdon Marriott Hotel on November 14.

Farmers costs have risen at twice the rate of the UK Retail Price Index since 2006, new figures reveal. UK farmers have had to try to absorb an overall agricultural inflation of 13 per cent in one year.

Two East Anglia pig breeding firms are set to share in a new China export bonanza for the UK, potentially worth millions.

Criminals are systematically targeting farms in East Anglia and the East of England with an 18 per cent rise in ‘agri-crime’ reported in 2010.

Two farms in East Anglia sold by Savills each fetched more than £8,000 an acre, the agent reports.