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Britain’s ’struggling’ cider market will face further pressure next year after HM Treasury’s Alcohol Duty Review consultation response ’ignored’ industry concerns.

The free range egg sector is in crisis as producers lose £8.63 on every hen, amounting to nearly £250,000 for the average flock of 32,000 birds.

A new breed record of 9,000gns was set at the Lonk Sheep Breeders Association show and sale at Clitheroe

The sheep sector has expressed its delight that British lamb has been exported to US for the first time in more than two decades, following ‘many years of hard work’.

Many youngsters had decided what type of job they would not do by the age of nine, showing how vital it was to promote farming as a career from a young age.

A Norfolk abattoir has been fined £300,000 after residents claimed they could not leave their homes owing to the stench of decaying poultry.

It has been a long, dry summer here in the Scottish Borders and we still have a couple of fields of grass to mow for second cut silage.

The new Defra Farming Minister, Mark Spencer, has hinted that a rethink on the phase out of badger culling could be on the way.

A farmer has been left feeling ‘pretty sick’ after 116 Romney ewes, worth approximately £17,000, disappeared from his 460-strong flock, feared to have been slaughtered.

Dairy farmers on aligned milk contracts have ‘jumped ships’ or are considering it in search of greener pastures, according to industry leaders.