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Farmers are being urged to look again at the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) after Defra boosted payment rates under both schemes.

Increasing economic pressures, supply concerns and wider environmental issues are set to amplify farm expenditure, with recent budgets looking quite different to those 12 months ago.

Increasing economic pressures, supply concerns and wider environmental issues are set to amplify farm expenditure, with recent budgets looking quite different to those 12 months ago.

Calls for the Government to work more closely with the poultry sector are growing following further outbreaks of avian influenza across both England and Scotland.

Farmgate price drops have continued to be announced into the new year as processors point to the impact of global commodity markets on UK prices.

Corteva Agriscience, the manufacturers of Inatreq active, has offered fresh advice on the fungicide’s application for the 2023 season.

Urgent action must be taken to make supply chains fairer if food is to be produced more sustainably in the coming years, a new report commissioned by the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) has said.

Farming support schemes are set to be disrupted this month after more than 400 staff at the Rural Payments Agency voted to strike.

More than 25 pregnant sheep have been killed in Kent in what local officers are calling ‘the worst livestock attack’ the force has ever seen.