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New data has highlighted a drop in the number of game birds reared for the 2020 shooting season and a rise in poult prices due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Countryfile presenter Adam Henson said he recognised some in the farming community did not think the BBC’s flagship Sunday evening show was ‘agricultural enough’, but that he tried to make farming accessible to all.

A leaked Government document shows a badger cull could go ahead in Derbyshire this autumn.

The US beef industry has been at the centre of discussion on a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal. In the first of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, Farmers Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the structure of the industry from the ranch to the packing plant.

Accurate interpretation and a proactive approach to pregnancy diagnosis (PD) results can pay off for suckler producers. Vet Kaz Strycharczyk, of Black Sheep Farm Health, Northumberland, offered a few tips.

With the recent announcement that trials for a vaccine for cattle against TB are to get underway, Hannah Noble caught up with UK Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss.

Defra’s Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme is facing fresh criticism, after newly-shared documents suggested it will bear ‘more than a passing resemblance’ to old agri-environment arrangements.

Potatoes in areas that have seen hot, dry weather recently are senescing more quickly than normal, particularly in unirrigated crops.

Biochemist, farmer and mother of four Cheryl Reeves is on a mission to showcase the wide range of opportunities agriculture has to offer. Gaina Morgan finds out more.

A farmer has voiced her frustration at the number of reckless drivers crashing their cars into her fields which has led to a prize-winning show cow sustaining injuries.