
Agri-Business
UK records first bluetongue outbreak of 2025/2026 season
Two cattle in Herefordshire have tested positive for bluetongue (BTV-3) following a non-negative pre-movement test. The confirmation was received on...
Agri-Business
Two cattle in Herefordshire have tested positive for bluetongue (BTV-3) following a non-negative pre-movement test. The confirmation was received on...
Agri-Business
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) launched a new food strategy policy which aims to create a...
Environment
With predicted heat waves due over the coming weeks, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is advising...
Pig/Poultry
Two cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, otherwise known as bird flu, has been detected in Wales,...
Environment
A new UK parliamentary report has highlighted regenerative agriculture as a promising, farmer-led approach to improving soil health, biodiversity, and...
N.Ireland
Arable farmers in the UK are to benefit from a new government review tackling unfair practices in the combinable crops’...
Agri-Business
More than £2.7 billion will be invested in sustainable farming and nature recovery each year from 2026/27 to 2028/29, according...
Agri-Business
In a significant drive to end the UK badger cull, tuberculosis (TB) vaccinations administered to badgers in England increased by...
Agri-Business
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) and several high-profile nature groups have joined forces to warn that cutting the...
Agri-Business
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs’s (DEFRA) latest figures show a profitability boost for the 2024 fiscal year....
Agri-Business
The Department for Environment, food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has allocated £13.6 million funding to charities across the UK to...
N.Ireland
Emily Norton has been appointed by Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ministers as the new Chair of...
Dairy
A single case of atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been confirmed on a farm in Essex the UK’s Animal and...
Pig/Poultry
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) plans to lift the order for mandatory housing of birds later...
Environment
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has responded to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Land...
N.Ireland
Two Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politicians have written a joint letter to Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA)...
Agri Politics
An open letter to the Minister of State for Food Security and Rural Affairs, Daniel Zeichner, has called on the...
Agri Politics
Former National Farmers’ Union (NFU) president and farmer, Baroness Minette Batters, has been appointed to lead a review of farm...