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There was confusion over how much threat a strain of swine flu discovered in China posed.

Five seconds can change your life. Here, farmer and director of L and K Group and North West Auctions, Trevor Wilson, talks to Hannah Binns about his near-death incident falling nine feet from a barn roof one sunny afternoon in May.

A Suffolk Punch mare has given birth to a filly foal following an innovative approach using sex sorted semen to determine the gender.

Nine ‘innovative’ agri-tech projects across the UK are set to benefit from £24 million in Government funding, in a bid to reach net zero food production and reduce carbon emissions.

In his hard-hitting and brave retelling of the fall that changed his life, farmer and auction mart director Trevor Wilson has laid bare the profound impact an on-farm health and safety incident can have on an individual and those around them.

The Government’s decision to set up a Trade Commission should have cooled down the debate on food standards, but instead it has heated it up, says Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City, University of London and author of Feeding Britain.

Confidence must be restored in Welsh Government’s ability to support rural communities in the post-EU era after it incurred fines for mishandling funds, says Llyr Gruffydd, North Wales MS and Plaid Cymru Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs.

Farmers should not worry about Brexit, but the coronavirus, which could kill off many small agricultural shows and sever the rural community’s links with wider society, says Dave Herbert, a South Welsh smallholder producing eggs and poultry.

The Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD) has approved the use of Funguran Progress (copper hydroxide) to control late blight in organic potato crops under an emergency use application.

Skipton’s opening store lamb sale of the 2020 season began on a high note with a major rise in both entry numbers and trading levels.