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In a bid to meet growing consumer demand for alternatives to dairy, Meadow Foods is set to open a new £4m plant-based manufacturing facility. Mollie Leach and Cedric Porter report.

North East MSP Mike Rumbles has called for changes to be made to the Scottish Agriculture Bill to limit Ministers’ power over future policy.

Public rights of way (PROW) across farmland can sometimes be a headache, especially when new claims are submitted. So how can you protect your land? Mollie leach explores what farmers need to know.

The British Free Range Egg Producers’ Association (BFREPA) has urged retailers and processors to create ‘better aligned’ contracts with egg producers, in order to tackle supply chain turbulence amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A farmer came to the rescue after a herd of cows escaped onto the M25.

The weather is fantastic and it would have been great if agricultural shows, events and festivals which usually occur had been able to take place. The irony of having fantastic weather on the Easter and May Bank Holidays, when people cannot or should not be going anywhere due to lockdown is a double blow.

As I write, it feels like the calm before the storm. Usually around this time we would be flat out with T2’s on wheat, but that will not take long this year and we are now playing a waiting game for the spring cereals.

In the unlikely scenario that I ever appear on Mastermind, my specialist subject will be the complete works of Henry Brewis.

A fatal accident inquiry has heard a young Scottish farmer drowned in half a foot of water after a quad bike overturned and trapped him underwater.

NFU Cymru president John Davies has called on the Welsh Government to pause and review its work on post-Brexit policy as the coronavirus pandemic continues.