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A 23-YEAR-OLD MAN from Northamptonshire has been convicted of theft after he stole a sheep, shot it dead and fed it to a pack of hounds.

Two Devonshire farmers have won a High Court battle to prevent people wild camping on their land in Dartmoor National Park.

With agritourism ventures growing in popularity across Scotland, Ewan Pate spoke to the farmers diversifying at the Scottish Agritourism Conference.

With Q fever having recently become reportable, we take a look at how the disease should be investigated if you have infertility issues in your herd.

In a bid to move away from imported soya, farmers are looking for alternatives and, for some farms, lupins could be an option. Wendy Short reports on a farm where lupins have been grown since 2014.

It takes years to breed, test and register new maize varieties which give UK growers the highest level of performance. Debbie James finds out more from the experts leading the maize breeding and trial work at farmer-owned co-operative Limagrain.

Support needed to increase farms’ resilience

Farmers are being urged to fortify their farmyards to deter thieves from draining their fuel tanks after diesel thefts more than doubled over the last 12 months.

A water company has been fined more than £500,000 after a raw sewage discharge killed 5,000 fish in a Northamptonshire river.

Further series of Clarkson’s Farm are currently hanging in the balance after Amazon has reportedly moved to cut ties with presenter-turned-farmer Jeremy Clarkson.