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The GMB union has called on the Government to change its approach after offering a ‘miserly’ pay offer to the Environment Agency (EA).

Processors have been urged not to pass escalating costs down the line to farmers who are already experiencing inflationary price pressures.

Tens of thousands of pigs are backing up on UK farms as processors cut slaughter numbers due to a lack of staff to butcher and process them.

Cheffins’ July vintage and classic auction saw more than 1,300 lots of vintage and classic tractors, machinery, motorcycles, cars and collector’s items go under the hammer at its sale ground in Sutton, near Ely. The sale

The retailer has launched a range of wool mattresses following reports of farmers burying or burning wool due to low prices

The retailer has launched a range of wool mattresses following reports of farmers burying or burning wool due to low prices

A long-term trial into seed-borne disease in cereals has seen bunt and loose smut re-emerge after just two years without seed treatments.

Put in layman’s terms, an agricultural common is an area of land which has an owner, usually described as The Lord of the Manor, who doesn’t farm it but  allows another farmer to graze it if they have either bought the right to graze it when they bought his/her farm, or else pays for the right via the tenancy of the farm he/she farms.

Cattle were electrocuted when a loose cable fell from an overhead power line.  

With improved conditions for drilling in autumn 2020 , the Defra provisional arable crop areas for England figures confirm a return to a more balanced picture for harvest 2021.