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Plans to ban meat at a Lancashire primary school and at Oxfordshire Council events have prompted scorn from across the farming spectrum this week.

As UK inflation rises to a 30-year high of 5.5% and the cost of living crisis deepens, a food industry expert has issued a call to remind consumers that food producers are feeling the pinch too.

Defra’s plan to help ease the pig backlog must be turned into reality without delay to provide ‘desperate farmers with some hope of a viable future’.

Farmers and rural communities are bracing themselves for extremely strong winds from Storm Eunice this weekend as the Met Office issued a rare Red Weather Warning.

Red Tractor has terminated a farm’s dairy scheme membership after a BBC Panorama programme showed shocking undercover footage of animal abuse.

Members of the public should not be alarmed by controlled moorland burning, a necessary practice to keep fuel loads low, industry chiefs have said.

Direct support will continue to make up a substantial proportion of the new funding package for Scottish farmers and crofters, according to Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon.

Environmental gains made under stewardship schemes risk being squandered over the coming years, as farmers begin to plough up land in a bid to recoup the upcoming loss of direct support in England.

Despite there being speculation that Northern Ireland would lose its non-accredited status for Maedi Visna (MV) officials have reassured breeders that Northern Ireland’s sheep flock will remain MV accredited.

With the price of ammonium nitrate almost three times what it was this time last year, it is not surprising that many farmers are thinking hard about what they can do to mitigate this escalating input cost. And it is not just fertiliser prices which are rising.