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Industry chiefs have reaffirmed the need for a comprehensive set of measures to tackle bovine TB, including badger culling, as field trials for a new cattle vaccine got underway this week.

Thirty-four workers lost their lives in agricultural incidents from April 2020 to the end of March 2021, marking a ’shocking’ 70 per cent death toll increase compared to last year, new data from HSE has revealed.

The future beyond BPS was the hot topic on business standards at this year’s Cereals Event

The Tenant Farmers Association has warned increased payment rates for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2022 are not enough by themselves for farmers to enter the scheme.

Newton Rigg Colleges upland farm facility, Low Beckside Farm, Mungrisdale, will be kept as an education resource following a purchase offer by land-based educational charity The Ernest Cook Trust (TECT).

The Tenant Farmers Association has warned increased payment rates for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2022 ‘are not enough by themselves’ for farmers to enter the scheme.

Field trials for a bovine tuberculosis (bTB) BCG cattle vaccine and a skin test have begun at a farm in England, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has announced. 

Two farmers from Devon have died within days of each other after being involved in separate farm incidents.

Spirits were high in the West Country last week when Devon Show became the first fully-fledged county event with general public attendance to be staged since 2019. 

The fire was believed to have be started by an ’accidental ignition’