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SIMMENTALS met a top call of 18,000gns with the 57 bulls averaging 5,961, up 372 on the year for five more sold and with a clearance rate of 58 per cent.

New proposals from the EU are expected to slash paperwork for food exports from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

The opening up of the US market to imports of British lamb has been welcomed but it remains to be seen what the impact on Scotch lamb will be.

The UK Government has offered the best prize of zero tariff, zero quota market access to the ‘worst producers in the world’ as part of its Australia trade deal, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) UK has warned.

The UK Government has offered the best prize of zero tariff, zero quota market access to the worst producers in the world as part of its Australia trade deal, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) UK has warned.

The importance of external markets to the Scottish red meat industry has been highlighted in a new report from Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), which showed the sector was worth more than £1 billion to the economy.

Trade deals which increase imported meat cuts and products are set to lead to a fresh wave of abattoir closures, new research from the Prince’s Countryside Fund has found.

The Board of Trade, a Government body headed up by Trade Secretary Liz Truss, has claimed buying local food is ‘not always the most environmentally sustainable choice’.

Trade Minister Greg Hands has said Australia can put up a reasonable case that it has good standards of animal welfare in food production.

Trade Minister Greg Hands has said Australia can put up a ‘reasonable case’ that it has good standards of animal welfare in food production.