The Traceability Design User Group (TDUG), the cross-industry body set up to guide and advise the work of the Livestock Information Programme (LIP), has selected Laura Ryan as its new chair.

South East police have issued a request for information following the theft of six New Holland tractors from an agricultural dealership.

After the NFU lost its legal battle over the Derbyshire cull decision, Hannah Binns asks where it leaves the Government’s 25-year bovine TB strategy.

Three people who worked at a North East cooked meats facility have died after testing positive for coronavirus.

Well-known sheepdog trialler and trainer Ricky Hutchinson is not letting lockdown hold him back, with his ’virtual’ sheepdog training courses proving popular during lockdown. Hannah Binns finds out more.

A North West agricultural college is set to close after an independent review found the campus financially unviable, sparking an outcry among its 888 students and many rural communities across the region. 

A new National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) by Newcastle University and partners is hoped to foster innovation, resilience and enterprise among rural firms through research and knowledge exchange.

Police have warned the public it is an offence to ‘worry livestock’ and the farmer has the power to shoot or injure a dog to protect stock after two cow chasing incidents in the South West.

Freshways producers have been threatened with a substantial price cut for non-compliance with the current A/B pricing structure, it has emerged.

In a heart-warming act of kindness, a farmer from the Midlands lambed an additional flock of sheep for a fellow farmer who was struck down with coronavirus.