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Defra Secretary Steve Reed goes before Efra Committee, telling them an IHT rethink would mean NHS services will be cut and reveals a new redrawn SFI will be coming early next year. Animal health is on the agenda as a single case of BSE is recorded in Essex. Meanwhile there is good news as Gen Z say farmers are the champions of the British countryside and the latest weather forecast says rain is on the way.

River flow and rainfall averages plummet as dry weather set to continue

Emma and family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farm gate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with RABI

This week from Farmers Guardian acting editor Katie Jones

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

Switching to a low-carbon fertiliser programme is now on the radar of many arable growers striving to meet sustainability targets amid pressure from the wider food supply chain to reduce the carbon footprint of food production

AHDB survey offers latest cereals update

This week from Farmers Guardian acting editor Katie Jones

NFU president Tom Bradshaw has issued a rally call to councillors and regional mayors to do all they can to back British farming if they are elected

But as the dry spell continues, concerns over irrigation mount