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MARKET OPPORTUNITIES

Why one farm switched from dairy to hay, straw and trees

A Leicestershire farming family has built a more resilient farming business, diversifying into selling hay, straw and Christmas trees direct to the public alongside cereal cropping. This summer, Jim Mount,…

NEWS

Minister misled on gene editing labelling rules

A High Court judge has ruled that ministers were wrongly advised about their powers to introduce labelling and traceability requirements for gene-edited products when developing England’s precision breeding regulations. In…

WILDLIFE

Supplementary feeding lifts winter farmland bird counts

Farms providing supplementary feeding recorded higher numbers of several farmland bird species that are in long-term national breeding decline, according to the latest Big Farmland Bird Count. The annual survey,…

NEWS

Scotch meat campaign targets summer of sport

Scottish red meat producers are primed to cash in on a summer of major sporting events, with a new campaign promoting Scotch Beef, Scotch Lamb and Prime Scottish Pork to…

BUSINESS

Call to ban imports over use of antibiotics as growth promoters

Industry and veterinary leaders have backed calls for a UK import ban on products from animals given growth-promoting antibiotics, citing public health concerns and fairer competition for farmers. The Alliance…

BREXIT

SPS deal with the EU due to be agreed next month

A sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU is scheduled to be agreed between parties on 13 July, according to senior UK and EU officials, with regulatory alignment set…

FARM POLICY

NFU leader urges government action on food security

The government must match its rhetoric on food security with policies that support domestic food production, NFU deputy president Paul Tompkins has said. Speaking at the University of Cambridge’s Cambridge…

NEWS

Analysis: Scottish farming demands delivery after SNP pledges

Scottish agriculture enters a new parliamentary term with farm support largely settled, but delivery still uncertain. The Scottish National Party’s (SNP’s) commitment to maintain more than £660m a year in…

BUSINESS

Diversified Oxford estate and Caerphilly family farm

A ring-fenced farming estate with 810 acres of arable land and 176 acres of pasture, parkland and woodland is being launched for sale in what is described as a “rare…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: Chwilboeth chaos and sweaty silage camaraderie

I’m writing this on the hottest day of the year (so far). It’s 31C outside, which is a temperature everyone knows Welsh people biologically cannot function in, so I’ve hastily…

FARMER FOCUS

Farmer Focus: Burden of risk in cattle trade must be shared

We have a brief respite before the summer workload of silage, hay and breeding begins. It’s a time to reflect on the spring just passed and work out where it…

SPRAYERS

Quad-X develops trailed 700-litre liquid fert applicator

ATV implements specialist Quad-X has added a 700-litre trailed sprayer to its range, with liquid fertiliser application to grassland very much in mind. It’s specced primarily to operate behind a…

OPINION

Editor's View: Stability is the new subsidy for farmers

If there’s a common thread running through the headlines in this week’s News section, it’s not the future of environmental schemes, the latest trade disputes, or even the size of…