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INPUT MARKETS AND PRICES

Red diesel prices fall back below 70p/litre

Farm businesses may be able to capitalise on lower red diesel prices at present, as prices fell back during December following a dip in global crude oil markets. Prices collected…

NEWS

Defra’s badger TB vaccination ‘too limited to work’

Defra has allocated £200,000 to purchase about 6,000 doses of BadgerBCG vaccine for England’s bovine TB vaccination programme, prompting warnings that the post-cull strategy risks being too limited in scale…

TRACTORS

Driver's view: Tom Dirom's Valtra Q285

Valtra’s long-awaited Q-series finally broke cover in 2022, filling a void between its existing T and S ranges. Second biggest in the five-strong line-up is the Q285, which matches the…

ARABLE

New entrant's journey from photographer to regen farmer

Starring in a film, returning home to help run the family farm, and continuing the transition to a regenerative system her father had started three years earlier have all been…

OPINION

Opinion: LENs foster invaluable co-operation in food chain

Farmers often don’t get listened to, so it makes a welcome change to be involved with Yorkshire Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs). This initiative encourages demand-side companies, such as Nestlé Purina,…

HEALTH AND WELFARE

Livestock tick disease vaccine project gets Defra funding

A new vaccine, developed at the Moredun Research Institute to protect sheep against tick-borne disease, has received a £450,000 cash boost from Defra. Louping ill (LI) is a serious, tick-borne…