New partnership aims to control viral infection levels by monitoring transmission

Alastair Sneddon on delays to bovine EID

Chris Dodds on fair prices and illegal imports

"Intensive farming, with its reliance on artificial nitrogen, vanishing peat and corrupting the soil, will not see many more tomorrows. It is literally unsustainable"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Plans for farmer-led committee to discuss research and funding opportunities

Growers urged to inspect condition before autumn planting

The Livestock Auctioneer's Association has launched MartSafe 3.0, a third year of its training programme for livestock market staff

From an auctioneer's advice on when to sell livestock this summer to how Farm Safety Week can mark the beginning of a new chapter for safer farming- these are six farming stories not to miss this week on FG