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Video footage showing a tractor swerving on an A-road before mounting an oncoming car has sparked warnings about the consequences of dangerous driving.

A number of on-farm actions, each driving incremental change, will be required to meet industry net zero targets and Arla are looking at the impact protein efficiency has on yield and environmental performance.

Video footage showing a tractor swerving on an A-road before mounting an oncoming car has sparked warnings about the consequences of dangerous driving.

Rural thieves are targeting farm pick-up trucks, with more than twice as many vehicles stolen each month compared to last year, rural insurer NFU Mutual has warned. 

A dairy farm has been fined £52,650 after pleading guilty to several offences against animal health and welfare, animal by-products and feed legislation.

Residents fighting plans to build a 40-hectare industrial plant on a family farm in South Wales say the development will have a devastating impact not only on the local community and landscape, but also on the area’s tourism.

A group of farmers, including Jeremy Clarkson and Gareth Wyn Jones, have warned the Government must slash the mountains of regulations which seek to micromanage every acre by half before the next General Election.

A 58-year-old farmer has died after being attacked by a bull during a Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) test.

Defra has pledged to keep the new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme in place, despite a commitment from the new ministerial team to a rapid review of farm support.