Police have launched an appeal for information after a dog attacked and killed six in-lamb Swaledale ewes carrying twins, injuring several more.  

As the foot-and-mouth epidemic rampaged throughout Britain, the large-scale shutdown of the countryside saw tourism become a major causality, losing an estimated £4.5-£5.4 billion.

Neil Shand, chairman of the National Beef Association, said the amount of cattle lost in the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis amounted to the size of England’s current suckler herd.

The Government’s contiguous cill was a ’truly brutal’ response to the escalating 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis which still weighs heavily on the minds of those involved, NSA chief executive, Phil Stocker, has

For many farmers caught up in the foot-and-mouth crisis, vets were sometimes ‘seen as part of the enemy’ for their active role in delivering Government’s blood-testing and cull policy.

NFU president at the time, Sir Ben Gill, was one of the major figures of the crisis. Here, his son Ed Gill tells Hannah Binns how his dad handled the huge pressure and why the family remains proud of the role he played.

This year marks 20 years since the foot-and-mouth crisis which devastated rural Britain. In this special look back, Hannah Binns talks to those who lived through the crisis and how it changed farming lives.

Cumbrian farmers have highlighted a ‘catalogue of errors’ by the Environment Agency (EA) and Rivers Trust in their approaches to water management and flooding.

A farming family in Lancashire have been left disheartened after thieves stole money from an honesty box.

Arla has proposed ceasing production at its Trevarrian site following the loss of key own-label cheese contracts plus continued instability in the food service demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic.