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Beef and dairy producers should be hit with a new tax in order to incentivise greener farming methods, while consumers should follow a diet restricted to fewer than three portions of meat a week, a new report has suggested.

A Somerset farmer has been fined and banned from keeping cattle for life after admitting causing unnecessary suffering to a calf.

Government ambitions to boost food production, protect nature and fight climate change, risk ‘overpromising’ on UK available land, a new report has revealed.

The Welsh Government must move quickly to legislate on national BVD measures to ensure recent gains are not lost, the Farmers Union of Wales has insisted.

More than 100,000 people have signed an NFU petition calling on the Government to ban sky lanterns across England and Wales.

The future of apple and pear growing in the UK is ‘on a knife edge’ after it emerged that more than a third of planned orders for trees have been cancelled.

Families with young children are buying fewer fresh food items in a bid to save money, a new survey has revealed.

Food, farming and rural life in Northern Ireland are set to take centre stage in a new BBC show starting next month.

The NFU has hit out at reports that troubled train line HS2 is facing a new raft of problems, with the union claiming that any further disruption to farm businesses would be ‘unacceptable’.

Cambridge City Council has been accused of wasting food after councillors shunned its new vegan menu.