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Farmers must look to the export market if they want to safeguard the UK’s food production reputation, industry leaders have claimed. 

A new breed record average for Charolais bulls was set at Stirling’s May bull sale, with averages mixed across other breeds.

The Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has called for the farming industry to be deregulated.

Ministers are being urged to put an end to the export of pesticides banned in the UK.

Fears are growing that the Shanghai Covid lockdown could be set to hit UK agricultural supply chains.

Farm groups are pushing for strong safeguards in any future trade deal with India to ensure production standards are protected.

Farm groups fears over the Australia trade deal are overheated and based on worst-case scenario projections, the chair of the Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) has said.

Farm groups’ fears over the Australia trade deal are ‘overheated’ and based on ‘worst-case scenario’ projections, the chair of the Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) has said.

Exclusive contracts that only allow dairy farmers to sell milk to one buyer should be broken up to free up farmers to try direct selling, supplying local food businesses and engaging much more with communities where they live, according to farmers taking part in a workshop at Dairy-Tech.

Farmers Guardian News and Business Reporter Hannah Binns talks to Dave Handley, Paul Tompkins and Gary Mitchell, NFU Scotland’s milk committee chair about their thoughts on AHDB.