Livestock

Hundreds of acres of moorland and forestry have been engulfed by wildfires due to the recent dry weather and ’irresponsible’ behaviour of people visiting the countryside.

NFU president Minette Batters has said the battle over protecting standards in trade deals is the ‘biggest political challenge’ the union has ever faced.

The EU has promised to learn lessons from the coronavirus pandemic by developing a new food security contingency plan.

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has confirmed that more than 3,800 bridging payments worth around £43 million have been successfully made to farmers and land managers.

An 82-year-old man has been trampled and killed by a herd of cows during a walk in the Yorkshire Dales with his wife and dogs.

TV chef Jamie Oliver has issued an impassioned plea to the Prime Minister not to undermine the UK’s high food production standards with cheap imports from the USA.

North East MSP Mike Rumbles has called for changes to be made to the Scottish Agriculture Bill to limit Ministers’ power over future policy.

The British Free Range Egg Producers’ Association (BFREPA) has urged retailers and processors to create ‘better aligned’ contracts with egg producers, in order to tackle supply chain turbulence amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A farmer came to the rescue after a herd of cows escaped onto the M25.

A fatal accident inquiry has heard a young Scottish farmer drowned in half a foot of water after a quad bike overturned and trapped him underwater.