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Poultry farmers have been reminded new compulsory biosecurity and housing measures to protect against avian influenza come into force on Friday (December 2)

It was the female and reserve overall champion which sold for the day’s top price of 4.79/kg (3,011) at Skipton’s Farmers Guardian supported Christmas show and sale.

This years Welsh Winter Fair saw historic wins in the sheep rings, and record prices of 36,000 in the post-show sale of cattle and 800 in the pig shed.

The processor said it was ’inevitable’ it would be the first to drop because of its ’position in the market place’

The Public and Commercial Services Union said it believed the strike action would have a major impact

It was quality over quantity at the launch of the AHDB Recommended Lists 2023/24, with 28 new varieties added overall and large yield increases seen, especially in barley and oilseed rape.

Trials at Helix Farm North in Yorkshire have investigated responses to nitrogen and fungicide inputs in winter wheat and barley crops.

A love for the Jersey breed, and the nostalgic taste of traditional Jersey milk, has seen one young farmer in Cumbria develop a flourishing on-farm dairy business.

Farming has the highest workplace injury rate - almost four times above the all-industry average, new findings from the Health and Safety Executive have revealed.

Only half the amount of free range turkeys will be available this Christmas as a result of the avian flu outbreak, industry experts have confirmed.