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BOVINE TB

Stormont backs urgent action on NI bovine TB crisis

Stormont has backed calls for immediate action to eradicate bovine TB, including wildlife intervention, as farmer concern grows over the long-running failure to control the disease. Members of the Legislative…

ENVIRONMENT

Hope grows for dairy and beef permitting alternative

A farmer-led alternative to environmental permitting for dairy and beef is gaining traction, with industry leaders increasingly confident a more workable system can be developed. NFU deputy president Paul Tompkins…

TRACTORS

Challenger gets reverse drive conversion for tree pruning

After decades of hauling heavy cultivation kit, a 1990s twin-track crawler has found an unlikely second career in the cider orchards of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The Caterpillar Challenger 55 is…

CROP WATCH

Crop Watch: Protecting OSR yields and weevil damage in pulses

This week's key discussions include protecting yields in flowering OSR crops, fertiliser strategies for milling wheat and the severe pea and bean weevil attacks in the north.  See also: How…

TENANCIES AND RENTS

How greener, longer-term FBTs are gaining momentum

Hot on the heels of a new guidance note from the Farm Tenancy Forum on how to set up a long-term farm business tenancy (FBT), the Duchy of Cornwall has…

COMMUNITY

Farmers deliver more pick-ups to war-torn Ukraine

British farmers and other industry stakeholders have just completed the delivery of another 38 pick-up trucks and vans to Ukraine – the 26th successful mission by UK charity Pick-ups for…

FARMER FOCUS

Farmer Focus: 10 years on, we’re a proper family farm

It has been busy here, but definitely a good busy, rather than a bad busy. We are eight days post due date for our spring-calving suckler cows. So far 40%…

BOVINE TB

Compulsory TB blood testing to expand in England

Compulsory interferon-gamma blood testing will be extended to more cattle herds in England from July, under changes by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha). From 1 July 2026, all…