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A round-up of this week's livestock sales, including Sedgemoor, Cockermouth, Exeter, Kirkby Stephen and Dogellau marts

Disease control initiative marks step forward in improving herd health and disease resilience within the Scottish pig industry

There was a roaring trade for all breeds of pedigree bulls with averages up across the board

Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz has said the UK has been 'taken for a ride' by US President Donald Trump in the recently announced trade deal

AHDB says possible novel variant is appearing in Recommended List trials

It follows positive feedback on on-farm slaughter changes last year which saw a 25% reduction in the number of stock slaughtered on farms

British Wool said the current average auction price of wool was £1/kg, a figure not seen since October 2018

Brooke Rollins has defended US animal welfare standards, revealing America will seek opportunities in pig and poultry markets

Poultry and other captive birds will be allowed to be kept outside from May 15

Shadow Defra Secretary Victoria Atkins told Parliament that more farmers had recently taken their own lives following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget changes to Inheritance Tax