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The UK egg sector is facing a situation as catastrophic as the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, a prominent producer has warned.

A crackdown on hare coursing led to more than 20 arrests in just one month, police in Lincolnshire have revealed.

The Government has been accused of ‘failing to honour its promises to farmers’ after Defra Secretary Therese Coffey refused to set out concrete details for the future of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme last week.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø are being warned that the cost-of-living crisis could lead to a rise in livestock thefts.

Tress planted outside woodlands could be worth as much as £3.8 billion, a new Government study has claimed.

Government disregard for farmers and food production has led directly to the growing food crisis, NFU president Minette Batters has said.ÂÌý

Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party Sir Ed Davey has called on the Government to appoint a cross-departmental minister to address the needs of rural communities.

A new law to reduce farm equipment theft could come into force early next year after it received backing from MPs.

Further fears farmland is being put at risk from tree-planting have been raised after commercial forestry values rose by 15 per cent over the past year.

Shortages for Christmas 2023 could be worse than 2022 with farmers weighing up whether it was worth ’the gamble’