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A new £18 million capital grant scheme to help safeguard rare and threatened species from extinction, has been launched by Natural England.

Food scandals from almost 40 years ago are still affecting consumer buying trends, a new survey has revealed.

Sophie Ascroft is currently on the McDonald’s Progressive Young Farmer scheme, but her journey took an unexpected turn before finding her place back in the industry. Here, she shares her personal experience with Farmers Guardian.

After buying his own farm in 2018, young farmer Jesper Toft Bitsch has invested in a new cow accommodation and automation. Chris McCullough reports.

FG investigates: As prices continue to rise at supermarkets, driving inflation higher, Cedric Porter investigates the gap between the retail price rises and the farmgate

The four leading UK farming unions have issued a joint statement demanding the Government address their concerns over food security and the end of the Energy and Trade Intensive Industry scheme (ETII).

Farmers in England are one step closer to tapping into gene editing technology, with the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act to remove precision bred, or ‘gene edited’, products from the scope of GMO legislation, bringing rules in line with other countries around the world, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Argentina.

Access to financing plus greater guidance and support will be key if UK farmers are to achieve the goal of carbon net zero by 2050, a new cross-industry report explains.