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New guidance on vaccination to improve cattle health in the UK prioritises scours as a disease which livestock should be protected against by default.

A slurry storage and processing system which could provide extra income for dairy farms and help to comply with new legislation is being piloted in the South West, Jane Carley reports.

ENVIRONMENT Secretary Ranil Jayawardena has been accused of giving up on family horticulture farms, as he flew to the Netherlands to look at glasshouse technology to boost home grown fruit and vegetable production.

The decision by the UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer Professor Christine Middlemiss will see mandatory housing measures for all poultry and captive birds in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex come into effect from 00:01

The Country Trust is on a mission to connect children with the land that sustains us all. We work with farmers from across the nation who generously open their farms so children can explore where food comes from for themselves.

Assessing cattle for worm burdens before using a wormer can save money and time, as well as prevent unnecessary treatments that can drive wormer resistance.

Well, harvest 2022 is officially over and it was our biggest harvest to date, with 300 hectares (740 acres) of combinables under our belts.

It has been a long, dry summer here in the Scottish Borders and we still have a couple of fields of grass to mow for second cut silage.

Precision Grazing, a farm consultancy group specialising in pasture-based livestock systems, recently held an on-farm open day with discussions focusing on how farmers could create resilient and profitable businesses. Rebecca

Emily Brown, 23, works on her family’s mixed farm in Stagsden, Bedfordshire and was Harper Adams Students’ Union president in 2021-22. She is also a NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador and helps promote diversity and inclusion in the industry.