MPs are set to debate controversial plans to significantly limit grazing on Dartmoor, following claims Natural England is attempting to rewild the iconic landscape ’by the backdoor’.
MPs are set to debate controversial plans to significantly limit grazing on Dartmoor following claims Natural England is attempting to rewild the iconic landscape “by the backdoor”.
Vegetable growers can expect a ‘seamless transfer’ when AHDB Horticulture’s crop protection service is taken over by its grower-owned replacement.
Cattle farmers are being reminded to take extra care over where their animals are kept as thousands of people are expected to head to the countryside over the Easter break.
More than £40m of funding is being made available to farmers to help manage slurry storage and store water more efficiently.
Cauliflower growers have warned of shortages on supermarket shelves after freezing temperatures in December and January wiped out 40 per cent of the UK’s crop.
Farm assurance body Red Tractor has bit back at claims published in The Times newspaper that said its members are “more likely to pollute the environment” than non-assured farms.
Ten years on from the horsemeat scandal, Caroline Stocks takes a look at food safety in the UK.
Calls by MPs to ban the routine use antibiotics in livestock over concerns about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) have been branded as “silly” by farming minister Mark Spencer.
Soaring input costs and concerns over post-Brexit support are prompting beef and sheep producers to make significant cutbacks in the number of livestock on their farms.