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With increased workloads putting extra pressure on civil servants, Rachael Brown spoke to employees about calls for a four-day week trial

We need to encourage policy makers including Defra and the Department for Education to take farming seriously and to work together if we are going to tackle the labour problem in the sector.

Lack of borders at UK ports poses real threat to animal welfare, say sector leaders

Defra said there would be a 10 per cent increase in the average value of agreements in the Sustainable Farming Incentive and Countryside Stewardship schemes, driven by increased payment rates.

Live updates from the Farmers Guardian news team at the Oxford Farming Conference 2024

Can an electric UTV be a viable alternative on a livestock farm, or is it better suited to diversification enterprises?

Adding lifting sugar beet and fodder beet to Trivett and Sons’ portfolio of services is an added benefit of purchasing a reconditioned harvester to handle their own crops

Proposals to standardise and simplify packaging information so food produced to the highest standards is consistently labelled

GSC Grays also said 60 per cent of farmers indicated they were not ‘appropriately supported' with their mental health during the agricultural transition

The dispersal of the Procters and Tatham Hall flocks of Texels and Beltex at Carlisle on behalf of Procters Farm, Wennington, topped at 9,000gns