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Organic Farmers & Growers’ annual National Organic Conference will bring food and farming communities together to explore mixed, whole organic farming systems and organic food supply chains.

It was the Charolais champion, Balymyle Sandy from William David and James Albert Connolly, Ballynahinch, County Down, which was crowned this year’s beef champion.

Holstein champion Damm Tatoo Sallie from Martin and Cyrill Millar, Coleraine, Londonderry took home the dairy inter-breed championship.

Longwool champion, a North Country Cheviot ewe from Jack Smyth and William Rankin, Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone, took home the sheep inter-breed sash.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has written an open letter to the nations farmers setting out his ambition for the sector in upcoming trade deals ahead of the UK Farm to Fork Summit on May 16

A leading horticulture group has pulled out of the Government’s Edible Horticulture Roundtable, citing disappointment at the decision not to develop a horticulture strategy for England.’

A toddler from Devon has died after being in a collision with a tractor, police have confirmed.

The Home Secretary Suella Braverman told a London conference there was no good reason the UK could not train up enough fruit pickers or butchers

The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has set out 10 key asks ahead of the ‘Farm to Fork’ summit

With sustainability in the spotlight across the UK and Europe, LEAF and the Netherlands Embassy in London take a look at the situation for Dutch farmers. Cedric Porter reports.