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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’

Industry leaders are calling for action after a new report revealed UK farmers are left with less than a penny of the profit of the food they produce.

A scene in a Netflix festive film that appears to show a Great Dane let loose among a flock of sheep for comic effect, has been ‘called out’ by the livestock industry.

The three Environmental Land Management schemes are to remain in place incorporating an enhanced Countryside Stewardship scheme that will be more closely linked to Local Nature Recovery, the Secretary of State for Defra Therese Coffey, has revealed.

Only half the amount of free range turkeys will be available this Christmas as a result of the avian flu outbreak, industry experts have confirmed.

Farming has the highest workplace injury rate - almost four times above the all-industry average, new findings from the Health and Safety Executive have revealed.

The Government must do more to boost economic confidence if the agri-supply sector is to have any chance of withstanding further shocks, Ministers have been warned.

Wales Rural Affairs Minister, Lesley Griffiths, has come out in support of tenant farmers, saying that if the new Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) does not work for them, it does not work at all.