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A new global initiative which merits farmers for adopting regenerative agriculture techniques is in the pipeline.

Livestock auctions marts will continue to trade under tighter measures following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement of a four-week national lockdown to help reduce the spread of Covid-19.

With many oilseed rape crops forward and looking well, some form of PGR is likely to be appropriate this season, growers are being advised some form of PGR is likely to be appropriate this season, growers are being advised.

CLIFTON Ace, a bull from Anne Bell, Southwick, Dumfries, led the trade at 8,000gns at the sale of Belted Galloways at Wallets Marts, Castle Douglas.

The Perdi and Knighton flocks of Bleu du Maine, Charollais, Rouge and Bluefaced Leicester sheep on behalf of the executors of the late Percy and Diana Tait, Worcester, held at Worcester market saw 132 lots average 1,557.

THE two-day sale of shearling rams at Hawes on behalf of the Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association ‘B’ district peaked at 38,000.

AHDB chairman Nicholas Saphir told an RABDF webinar the industry must become more demand led and collaborate more in the future

Farming industry leaders in Australia have warned the cost and availability of fruit and vegetables could be hit hard by a lack of labour without the restart of the Working Holiday Maker (WHM) programme.

The case was unrelated to the H5N2 strain which was confirmed in at a small commercial premises near Deal in Kent