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Farm businesses have been urged to feed into a new inquiry to help inform the Government about the ‘true effects’ of the cost-of-living crisis.

Topping the show and sale of Highland cattle at Oban at was Andrew and Helen Kirkpatrick’s March 2019-born heifer, Claggorm 51 of Glengarnock from their fold at Beith, North Ayrshire.

Industry chiefs have urged Defra to consider expanding regional housing measures on a national basis to protect birds from Avian Influenza (AI). By Hannah Binns and Jane Thynne.

Prime Minister Liz Truss may be going all out for growth, growth, growth but rising costs and labour shortages mean previously thriving rural enterprises in Scotland are stalling or going out of business altogether.

The horticultural industry has established a grower-owned working group to provide support to a successor body to AHDB Horticulture to take over processing of EAMU applications and emergency authorisations.

Tenant farmers must be given full, independent access to all Government schemes and incentives if the sector is to thrive in a future agricultural landscape, according to the Rock Review which has been published today.

Dairy farmers in Wales are not yet ‘out of the woods’ despite a climbdown by Welsh Government on water rules, a union leader has warned.

Welsh farming unions have joined the British Veterinary Association (BVA) in welcoming the news that the use of Approved Tuberculin Testers (ATTs) in private practice in Wales has been given the go-ahead.

As milk prices appear to be nearing their peak, Cedric Porter takes a look at what might be next for dairy markets.