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A smallholder has been received a 10-year ban from keeping farmed livestock after Nottinghamshire County Council Trading Standards found rotting carcases of a pig and a goat on her land.

A home-bred Charollais from Ben Radley, Dumfriesshire, was tapped out as champion in the inter-breed sheep judging at this year’s Royal Highland Show.

Arla’s farmgate milk price for the standard manufacturing litre will increase by 1.66ppl from July 1

It was the Charolais champion, Maerdy Morwr, from David Stubbs of AJR Farms, Aberdeenshire, which was tapped out as this year’s Royal Highland Show inter-breed champion. Hannah Park and Katie Fallon report.

Farmers and landowners can utilise the Forestry Commission’s ‘flexible’ England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) to produce a woodland which meets their own objectives.

The poultry sector is working hard to attract and retain domestic staff. Emma Penny looks at the range of approaches businesses are taking to address the issue.

Details of Defra’s long-anticipated Slurry Storage Grants, part of the Farming Investment Fund, have finally been released. But what will they cover, and are you eligible to claim? Abi Kay reports.

A farmer who failed to comply with livestock disease control measures has been ordered to pay £8,646 in fines and costs. 

More than 12 million people in rural communities risk being sidelined by the Government’s Levelling Up policy, a new study has found.

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Committee has said farmers should feel reassured after the Government announced its support for the committee’s recent tree planting report.