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A farmer who allegedly flipped a car over that had wrongly parked in front of a farm gate on private land is facing charges for criminal damage and dangerous driving. 

Farmers have reacted angrily to a threat from Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths to ‘close’ chicken sheds in order to tackle water pollution.

The former national chairman of the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs is set to welcome the BBC on-farm in a bid to showcase the valuable work farmers do to keep the nation fed 24/7 during this year’s #Farm24 event.

A British man has beaten the nine-hour lamb shearing world record in memory of his daughter. 

FirstMilk will hold its milkprice for September at the current level.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic seeing a 20.3 per cent fall in rural crime costs totalling £43.3 million in 2020, the lowest annual level in five years, thieves returned to UK farmyards with new tactics and targets.

Farmers are being urged to plan how they will manage and build stocks of winter forage and bedding following this year’s cold and wet spring.

Trade Minister Greg Hands has said Australia can put up a reasonable case that it has good standards of animal welfare in food production.

Trade Minister Greg Hands has said Australia can put up a ‘reasonable case’ that it has good standards of animal welfare in food production.

Farmers in England will be able to spread slurry or manure in autumn providing there is no pollution risk, following the Environment Agency’s decision to relax enforcement rules until the end of February 2022.