Beef

Mr Mackintosh will start in post on July 1 2024 replacing Christine Tacon as Red Tractor chair

Achieving net zero beef production is the key driver for Greg and Rowan Pickstock at Brogain Farm, Llanfechain, who were last year's BFA Beef Farmer of the Year winners.

Visitors gathered around the livestock rings at this year’s Northumberland County Show for a day of friendly competition

With this year’s show season now in full swing, exhibitors and visitors returned to the livestock rings at Balmoral Show

This week's Farmers Guardian podcast is part one of Charlotte Ashley's transition into the dairy sector

Under the new recommendations farmers will be able to choose to delay the removal of a cow or heifer in the last 60 days of pregnancy and animals that have given birth in the previous 7 days, subject to biosecurity conditions to protect other cattle in the herd

A power outage has affected the British Cattle Movements Service

NFU President Tom Bradshaw said: "The success of the bTB eradication strategy is dependent on a range of methods to tackle the disease, including badger vaccination, responsible cattle movements and badger control"

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm

According to AHDB, this was unlikely to displace UK exports