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The Government has been urged to reassess the types of English Language tests applicants for Skilled Worker Visas must take to help alleviate the labour shortage across the meat processing sector.

Restaurant chain Miller and Carter has been called out by the National Beef Association for its ’crass’ promotion of Australian steak. 

Key elements of Defra’s new environmental grant schemes are still not in place despite the initial rollout just months away and low uptake of farmers.

The halting of production at two UK fertiliser plants responsible for up to 60 per cent of Britain’s CO2 production could threaten national food security and ’ruin’ Christmas’, industry chiefs have warned. 

NFU Dairy has revealed its new Dairy Export Strategy focusing on adding value in the dairy industry

A project to detect potato diseases and defects before they hit supermarket shelves is being carried out by B-hive Innovations.

A new tool has been introduced to help growers reduce the risk of water pollution and the loss of pulse and potato post-emherbicide,bentazone.

It is that time of year again when the weather person on TV talks about increasingly autumnal conditions and you know summer is nearly over. That said, it has been a lovely spell, allowing us to get second cut silage and arable silage cut and baled with little stress.

Siobhan Rutter, 23, lives on her family farm in Tarporley Cheshire. She has just recently graduated from the Royal Agricultural University and has a strong passion for educating the public to where their food comes from.

A single case of classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been confirmed on a farm in Somerset farm but the public have been reassured there is no risk to food safety.