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Quality Meat Scotland said prime cattle prices began 2024 around 45 per cent higher than they started 2020

Surrey Police confirmed a 19-year-old teenager had been arrested after 14 lambs were 'run over' by a vehicle

The competition will see butchers from England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland compete against each other to be crowned as the winning nation

Increased exports to China boosted the Australian sheep trade in 2023

NFU Cymru said the projections from Welsh Government's latest SFS impact assessment predicted a 'shocking scenario' for Welsh farming

NFU deputy president, Tom Bradshaw said the industry was ‘seeing austerity in action', adding APHA were doing everything it could within its budget, but Government must give them better resources

Negotiations between the UK and Canada on a post-Brexit trade deal have halted after two years following concerns over products such as cheese and hormone-treated beef

Finance rates increasingly important following interest rate rises

Despite the ongoing reduction of the national suckler herd, there is optimism within the industry that trade will be strong at Stirling bull sales next month. Angela Calvert reports

Dairy farmers are being advised to vaccinate youngstock and naïve cattle against lungworm (husk) ahead of the 2024 grazing season after a significant rise in cases in recent years