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Trade Secretary Liz Truss has attempted to reassure Welsh sheep farmers about the prospect of a UK-New Zealand trade deal.

As the UK heads into a second lockdown I felt very lucky, if a little guilty, to be heading for Iceland.

Despite a rough season for sugar beet following drought, virus yellows and foliar disease outbreaks, an improvement in the weather means there is still potential to add yield.

A Dutch scientist turned film maker has teamed up with a group of European farmers to produce a crowd-funded documentary film which will dispel the mistruths surrounding glyphosate.

The UK dairy market has largely weathered Covid-19 so far, but could be seriously impacted by Britain’s future trading relationship with the EU.

Thieves wielding crowbars broke into a farm and smashed their way into two milk vending machines, stealing cash from the farm’s honesty box.

Between the Beltex Sheep Society and its members, 1,700 has been donated to charities supporting the rural community.

Salers from Patrick Boyd’s Drumaglea herd, Isle of Tiree, led both the male and female trade at the Farmers Guardian supported breed society sale at Castle Douglas.

The chairman of the Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC), Tim Smith, has said he expects around 80 per cent of the body’s recommendations to Government to be backed by all of its members.

British Wool have appointed Andrew Hogley as acting chief executive officer after Joe Farren stepped down due to ’personal reasons’