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The UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer Professor Christine Middlemiss has urged free-range egg producers to plan and be prepared for another Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak this winter.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø’ profit margins will be harder hit next year as businesses find it difficult to avoid cost increases, Richard King, partner and head of business research at The Andersons Centre, has warned.

A dairy farmer has criticised HS2 for being ‘reticent’ in communicating with landowners and being ‘very slow’ at payments.

A 55-year-old farmer from Kinross has been killed in an incident involving at all-terrain vehicle (ATV).

Concerns have been raised about the availability and cost of forage after organic dairy producers were offered a derogation by Defra to use conventional forage.

Video footage showing a tractor swerving on an A-road before mounting an oncoming car has sparked warnings about the consequences of dangerous driving.

Video footage showing a tractor swerving on an A-road before mounting an oncoming car has sparked warnings about the consequences of dangerous driving.

Rural thieves are targeting farm pick-up trucks, with more than twice as many vehicles stolen each month compared to last year, rural insurer NFU Mutual has warned. 

A dairy farm has been fined £52,650 after pleading guilty to several offences against animal health and welfare, animal by-products and feed legislation.

But the cooperative said the price for organic milk will remain unchanged as demand comes under pressure.