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Following a two-year break, the Royal Welsh Show returns with major changes at the helm. Barry Alston reports.

Rewilding and carbon sequestration projects are putting rural livelihoods, as well as farmland, at risk, industry bodies have warned. By Ewan Pate and Jane Thynne.

The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has called for a rethink of the way farm animals are fed, branding the current approach ‘inherently inefficient’.

The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution has launched a ‘return to school’ grant to help farming families cover the cost of school uniforms, P.E. kit and other equipment.

The Government does not appear to have a plan to tackle the catastrophic worldwide hunger crisis caused by the war in Ukraine and other issues, MPs on the International Development Committee have warned.

A farmer in Somerset has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after pleading guilty to polluting the River Frome.

Boris Johnson has resigned as Conservative leader but says he will continue as prime minister until the autumn

While visitors from all over the world will being heading to the Great Yorkshire Show for the first time as part of the World Charolais Congress, for one local herd it has been a major fixture on the calendar for many years.

Farmers hoping for relief from high input prices were likely to be disappointed, with costs expected to remain high for at least the rest of the year and much longer if there is continued disruption to global supply chains.