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Although fruit and vineyard machines dominated Massey Ferguson’s recent 3 Series tractor launch, a model at the top end of the range will pique the interest of livestock farmers requiring a sophisticated all-rounder. Farmers Guardian reports.

Fraser Jones milks 1,450 Holstein Friesians and employs 37 people across three sites near Welshpool. Herd health, sustainability and welfare are key priorities for Fraser, who is a Disease? Not On My Farm! ambassador for MSD Animal Health.

A West Yorkshire man has pleaded guilty to illegally killing a cow on a farm in Lancashire and been ordered to pay fines and court costs amounting to 5,781.

Sir Robert Goodwill has been elected chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, following a ballot in the House of Commons on May 25.

A NEW initiative by Defra to help new entrants get onto the farming ladder has been branded an ‘enormous waste of money’ by farmers. 

A new law to cut red tape on gene editing has been introduced to Parliament this week, potentially making the first gene-edited products available to consumers by next year.

It is the simple system at Nerewater Farm which has allowed Richard Bell to lead the national British Friesian rankings in the National Milk Records’ annual production report for the last five years. Katie Fallon reports.

Bovine tuberculosis remains one of the ‘main threats’ to Welsh farming, according to a report published by a Senedd committee.

Dan Burdett and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place near Edenbridge, Kent.

A Ukrainian dairy farmer has vowed to rebuild his business after Russian soldiers killed 110 of his animals and damaged his farm near Chernihiv. Chris McCullough reports.