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Arable
The chair of the British Carrot Growers Association (BCGA) has said that due to profits being squeezed to extremely tight...
Agri-Business
AB Agri has announced the appointment of a new managing director for it’s dairy businesses within the UK and Ireland....
Sheep
The National Sheep Association (NSA) aims to highlight the devastating issue of dog attacks on sheep or ‘sheep worrying by...
Rural Life
A new partnership has formed between The MacRobert Trust and Inclusive Farm to provide people with disabilities or additional needs...
The only small abattoir in Yorkshire Dales, McIntyre meats, is set to close on March 27. The closure of the...
Schemes
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Scotland is reminding those considering erecting or upgrading their slurry storage to meet new regulations,...
Last year (2023), saw the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme (AECS) award more than £7 million to 517 rural businesses in Scotland....
A livestock attack in Tavistock, near Devon, which resulted in the death of 43 sheep, is currently under investigation by...
Farms are among millions of businesses that lawyers say have, on average, had their gas and electricity bills falsely inflated by...
The National Sheep Association (NSA) is urging the farming community to look out for their farming peers this January, as...
Environment
A farmer in Burnley has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 after Burnley Council took legal action to stop...
Agri Politics
MP for West Dorset, Chris Loder, has developed his long-standing campaign to ban live animal exports. The Animal Welfare (Live...
The Countryside Alliance has called for two councils to retract their public support for vegan diets, in a bid to...
Pig/Poultry
For the first time, the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (otherwise known as bird flu or HPAI) has today...
A further two cases of bluetongue virus (BTV) in cattle have been identified at two new locations following active surveillance...
Mark Chatterton, the Head of Agriculture at one of the largest accountancy firms in the UK, Duncan and Toplis, has...
Machinery
A 26-year-old man from Essex has been arrested after six items of farm machinery and vehicles that had been reported...
Farmers with beef cows are reminded that applications to the Scottish Suckler Beef Scheme (SSBSS), which provides £40 million to...
