As people forced to work from home during lockdown identify a new way of life and seek a healthier work/life balance, property experts predict the lifestyle property market could be set for change.

Land sold for tree planting continued to achieve strong results in early 2020, with some agents reporting upwards of £2,000 per acre.

Beef producers are in a strong position to capitalise on growing retail demand for British product which has seen liveweight and deadweight prices for mid-June rise 4.8 per cent and 5.3 per cent respectively on last year.

Six people have been arrested after 10 suspected victims of modern slavery were found living in a farm building in Bedfordshire.

Farmers attending livestock markets have been reminded to adhere to social distancing guidelines and ‘avoid complacency’ in order to avoid a second spike and ensure sales can continue undisrupted.

Bayer will pay up to $10.9bn (£8.8bn) to settle cancer claims linked to itsglyphosate-based herbicide Roundup.

Swarms of locusts have wreaked havoc on farms in Pakistan, wiping out swathes of winter crops and leading to fears of long-term food shortages.

A farmer has called on the National Trust to do more to protect livestock from dog attacks after her sheep were maimed in separate incidents in the last few weeks.

Police forces recorded fewer instances of dog attacks on sheep in 2019 than on the previous year, the first decrease since 2012. 

Walkers who are not familiar with the countryside and have descended on the countryside during the coronavirus lockdown are thought to behind a rise in the number of dog attacks on livestock.