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The first fertiliser applications were applied to the 2023 ADAS Nutrition Challenge sites last week, starting the race to be crowned the winner of the best spring fertiliser management strategy.

Few farmers can keep beef cows as economically as Duncan and Claire Morrison at Meikle Maldron, an upland farm near Torphins in Aberdeenshire. Ewan Pate reports.

Four males have been charged with hare coursing offences in Lincolnshire, while a further two men have been ordered to pay more than £11,000 by magistrates in the county, after pleading guilty to trespass with intent to pursue hares with dogs.

A farm in Lincolnshire was today besieged by police officers after a body was spotted in a field by a train passenger.

Increasing cases of bovine TB on Anglesey are ringing alarm bells in Wales, with cattle keepers receiving additional advice as the Welsh Government tries to keep cases low.

Minimising food miles and tapping into increasing demand for oat ingredients in the food and drink industry were the key targets for the new Navara Oat Milling plant, with plans for the first oats to be processed there this summer.

AHDB’s export team was in Dallas, Texas, last week for the Annual Meat Conference (AMC) as the levy board sought to promote British beef and lamb in the States. Ben Briggs joined the delegation and reports from the

Arguments between Government departments are playing a key role in denying British farmers the supply of the seasonal labour they need.

Ambitious renewable energy targets will require a large amount of agricultural land across Scotland and the rest of the UK, with the impact not well-understood.