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This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

"Agriculture has a significant role economically, socially, culturally and environmentally"

The UK has introduced strict new controls on personal imports of meat, cheese and milk products

"Every owner, tenant farmer, shepherd, stonemason, fencer, forester, ploughman and gardener has shaped the estate into what it is today"

A spokesperson for River Action said: "It was a genuine mistake corrected minutes later in the BBC programme"

A former accountant has taken a leap into dairy farming, with milk from his 40-cow herd sold direct to the public on the Isle of Man

Charles Sercombe has died following a cancer diagnosis

Zoe Legg, 24, is from Exeter in Devon, and she is currently studying agri-food marketing and business at Harper Adams University.

Groups launch legal challenges saying Government has broken manifesto promises to end badger cull

Research from Lyme Resource Centre said 60% of people who had been bitten by ticks in 2024 were exposed in fields, woodland and farmland