Red meat has been ‘completely misunderstood’ and unfairly targeted as the scapegoat for consumers in the climate change debate.

Proposals for a new solar farm spanning parts of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire which will see agricultural land taken out of production have faced strong opposition from local farmers.

Farm work pressures in a progressively more isolated role is increasing loneliness in the farming community as farmers struggle to socialise and share their problems.

Beavers could potentially impact agricultural land through undermining riverbanks, damaging trees, impeding farmland drainage and causing low-lying fields to flood, the NFU has warned. 

Inaction from National Resources Wales (NRW) has seen farmland continue to be flooded every year, leaving Anglesey farmers exasperated.

Consumption of Welsh lamb could grow if the sector ‘takes away the risk’, with the meat highly-prized among England’s shoppers compared to its British and New Zealand counterparts.

Scientists have questioned the ’reliability’ of data linking deaths to the consumption of unprocessed red meat, criticising top medical journals for their ’unwillingness’ to produce primary evidence. 

The spiking of a young farmer via injection at a YFC event has sparked calls for caution.

Farmers in England must act swiftly if they wish to tap into the Governments new £27 million Farming Investment Fund, industry has warned.

Pilgrim’s UK has announced the acquisition of Randall Parker Foods (RPF), which it said would back British lamb production.