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Industry chiefs have been left incensed at calls to increase wages and conditions to alleviate the crisis gripping all corners of the agricultural sector.

The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has urged shoppers not to panic buy dairy products, following reports of farmers having to dump their milk due to HGV lorry driver shortages.

Defra Secretary George Eustice has said farmers will need to cut mineral fertiliser use ‘quite significantly’ in order to meet the country’s net zero emissions target.

With a reliance on technology to optimise production processes growing on UK dairy farms, a research team at Bristol University is embarking on a project to investigate where cyber security vulnerabilities might be.

A new North Country Cheviot Hill ram record of 24,000 was set at Lairg for a two-shear ram from W.D. Allens Stouphill flock, Alnwick.

Preparations are well underway for Cultivate 2022, a business-led conference aimed specifically at farming and rural enterprises. With Farmers Guardian being the event’s media partner we find out more about what January’s event has in store.

Gene editing (GE) and the use of innovative breeding technologies is firmly on the agenda within Westminster, as evidenced by the announced on GE by George Eustice.

Today marks the launch of the fourth, and potentially most important, year of our #ThisIsAgriculture campaign, at a moment in time when showcasing careers throughout the industry has never been more crucial.

It is a sad fact that some of the most successful, life-saving agricultural advances were bitterly opposed by environmental groups when they were first created. 

Emily Brown, 22, is the current Students’ Union President at Harper Adams University and is from a family farm in Stagsden, Bedfordshire.