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Businesses with a minimum of 50 employees can establish asymptomatic testing sites (ATSs) in the workplace, enabling staff to access free lateral flow devices (LFDs) and receive rapid Covid-19 results, Defra has said.

A surge in pet ownership and countryside visitors brought by the Covid-19 pandemic has seen the cost of dog attacks on farm animals rise to £1.3 million, an increase of more than 10 per cent, NFU Mutual has said.

An Abattoir Sector Group (ASG) has been set up to help develop a thriving network of local abattoirs across the UK.

No-till growers produce a tonne of wheat for £23/tonne less than the average UK farm, according to the latest analysis of benchmarking data by Land Family Business.

The NFU has hit out at a new Defra consultation on badger culling in England, branding it political and contradictory.

BASIS has launched a trainee membership scheme for those in the first stages of developing a successful career in the crop production and agronomy industry.

A TikTok video showing a young child being lifted on the front of a telehandler has been widely condemned by industry.

Having waited nearly four years after the launch of its largest pivot steer telehandler, JCB has given the TM420 the ‘S’ treatment, following in the footsteps of the TM320S.

Aberdeen saw the biggest drop, losing 11 herds in 2020

Another application to release lynx in Kielder Forest in the Scottish Borders looks doubtful, the National Sheep Association (NSA) has said.