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UFU president David Brown said: "We have received many complaints from frustrated members informing us that DAERA's IT system is not working to full capacity. This level of service is completely unacceptable."

Defra Secretary, Steve Barclay said he had listened to farmers, bringing what he said was a clearer focus on enabling food production in environmental land management schemes

F arming has always been recognised as a hazardous occupation and sadly its safety record has stagnated over the years, with more deaths and non-fatal injuries each year than any other industry

Users will have to be fully trained and certified in order to access key SGARs

Proposals to standardise and simplify packaging information so food produced to the highest standards is consistently labelled

Residents said farmers used tractors to help recover the 4x4 from the River Esk in the North York Moors

Baroness Kate Rock said such words demonstrated precisely why there was a need for a Tenant Farming Commissioner

Hybu Cig Cymru's new Welsh beef campaign will feature in a series of advertising in the run up to Christmas across digital, radio and TV

After a challenging year in the organic dairy sector, our chief reporter Rachael Brown takes a look at the prospect for the market going forward

A professor of virology at University of Nottingham said the weather conditions will be important over the next three months. Prof Peter Mertens said: "If you get low temperatures in winter, onward transmission is going to be curtailed"