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The poultry sector is working hard to attract and retain domestic staff. Emma Penny looks at the range of approaches businesses are taking to address the issue.

Mark Richardson prepares for show returns across UK.

Defra Ministers have become embroiled in a spat with industry after claiming the backlog of pigs on farms has now been ‘almost completely removed’. By Abi Kay, Ewan Pate and Hannah Binns.

Few Scottish farmers can have had as long an association with the Royal Highland Show as this year’s inter-breed sheep judge, Clark Stewart. Ewan Pate reports.

A GROUP of top scientists are coming together to tackle the avian flu crisis, following what has been described as the ‘toughest and most challenging’ season ever.

One of the oldest and best known names in the world of breeding Clydesdale horses is Muirton Stud run by the Clark family. Erika Hay paid them a visit.

Farming policy, solar energy and animal health were top of farmers’ minds at the Royal Cornwall Show last week, where George Eustice hosted a Q&A session. Ruth Wills reports.

Food is always top of my agenda, personally and politically. But both the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have brought the importance of food into particularly sharp focus for us all.

We have been experiencing a more typical British summer than the past three years of scorching sun and high temperatures.

Matthew Donald, 30, from Northallerton in North Yorkshire, runs a farrow to finish pig unit, alongside two broiler breeder farms producing fertile hatching eggs for the broiler industry.