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Scotland’s farmers and crofters have a new Cabinet Secretary to deal with following Wednesday’s cabinet reshuffle.

When a cow gets mastitis in the first month post-calving, the chances are she picked up the infection during the dry period.

With the primary aim of providing a break crop between reseeding of grass leys, for one Carmarthenshire dairy farm, root crops also provided a much-needed source of extra feed for cows and helped extend dwindling forage reserves.

Gene edited (GE) wheat could be planted as soon as September if Defra gives Rothamsted Research’s latest project the green light.

Farm groups have welcomed the publication of the Government’s long-awaited consultation on a lump sum retirement scheme and delinked payments in England.

Farming Minister Victoria Prentis has urged farmers to submit their claim to the Countryside Productivity Small Grant (CPSG) scheme before it closes at midnight on May 31.

More than 2,000 farmers have responded to Defra’s call for applicants for the pilot of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), one of the Government’s three new schemes.

Brazilian exports of sugar to the UK rocketed in the first quarter of 2021 as a direct result of the UK’s post-Brexit tariff regime.

Brazilian exports of sugar to the UK rocketed in the first quarter of 2021 as a direct result of the UKs post-Brexit tariff regime.

LAA has reminded vendors markets should be operating a ‘business only basis’ with some still retaining a drop and go policy