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Milk cooling, water heating and vacuum pumps account for the biggest proportion of energy use on a dairy farm and therefore offer the greatest scope for savings, says energy specialist Chris Brooks.

Herd health and fertility performance is continuing to approve according to NMR’s latest key performance indicator (KPI) report.

Donna Edmonds, Farms for City Children CEO, believes her charity can play a key role in safeguarding farming’s future

Former Food Tsar Henry Dimbleby has spoken out on the Government’s trade deals, and said forthcoming agreements must not follow the ‘uniquely unsophisticated’ approach adopted by Liz Truss.

The ‘to do’ list for dairy farmers before first cut can be long, but key tasks must be prioritised to ensure high-quality silage.

Four males have been charged with hare coursing offences in Lincolnshire, while a further two men have been ordered to pay more than £11,000 by magistrates in the county, after pleading guilty to trespass with intent to pursue hares with dogs.

Last year saw the first reduction in the amount of land rented to farmers since Farm Business Tenancies were introduced in 1995, according to Defra’s own figures.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian’s news team talk about the latest in the food fraud scandal of South American beef being branded as British at a UK supermarket and Olivia Midgley speaks to RSPB chief executive Becky Speight

Plans to destock common land on Dartmoor by 90 per cent have been labelled ‘draconian’ and ‘savage’ by farmers, who see Natural England’s (NE) latest policy as ‘rewilding by the back door’.