Farmers are more likely to turn to vets for help with mental health issues, a survey has found.

Vets have called on the Government to ensure workforce capacity meets demand following Boris Johnson’s pledge to bolster animal health and welfare and food standards in a future trade deal with the EU.

A cohort of 60 farming and environmental groups have written a joint letter to the Prime Minister to highlight the importance of ensuring the UK’s standards of food production are not undermined when the UK leaves the EU.

Thieves have stolen livestock worth £3 million in the last year, with some animals butchered in farmers’ fields and the meat then sold on the black market.

Farmers in Wales have made an impassioned plea to the Welsh Government to implement badger culling in endemic disease areas after the number of bTB infected cattle slaughtered topped its highest on record.

Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments worth 1.64 billion and 109 million in Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES) has reached farmers’ bank accounts in record time.

Boosting efficiency in agricultural systems while reducing the sector’s impact on the environment are key themes in new technologies coming to market.

A combination of miscalculated livestock emissions and ill-informed assumptions that cutting out red meat from people’s diets will stop global warming risks alienating farmers.

Achieving net zero in agriculture must not come at the expense of biodiversity loss or ’exporting’ our carbon emissions overseas.

Consumers think farmers are central to tackling climate change and boosting nature but many do not think the industry is doing enough.