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QMS said a levy increase would be vital in ensuring iconic Scotch brands thrive both in Scotland and abroad

Investing £30,000 in starling-proofing cattle housing is a major outlay for a Welsh dairy farming business, but it calculates a payback period of just two months in feed savings alone

Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser to the CAAV, said farmers can help reduce emissions through slurry storage

Exceptional volatility has been the key theme for 2022/23 farm business incomes in England, with huge differences between the sectors

Dairy farmer Susie Mottershead said Joyce Watson's MS comments that dairy farmers with chronic TB should find another business was a kick in the teeth. "Never have I felt the mental health of farmers be so completely disregarded. We are that chronic bTB farm," she said

Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, addressed the NFU's Henry Plumb Memorial Lecture

Cow-calf separation is of growing concern to the public and 2021 Nuffield scholar, Anna Bowen, undertook a study to look at the opportunities for dairy farms to transition to cow-calf contact systems

With 97 per cent of farming businesses, being family businesses, Nuffield Scholar, Peter Craven set out to discover the winning formula for success

Store lambs, pedigree in-lamb ewes and rams have all been in demand

NFU modelling work showed on average upland farm businesses lost 37 per cent of their support payments under the current Sustainable Farming Incentive and Countryside Stewardship options