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The NFU is backing a group of poultry farmers who are taking their fight for avian influenza (AI) compensation to court.

A row is brewing over the future of rural housing in Wales as the Government introduces new rules that business groups say will stifle tourism and limit farm diversification.

Welsh farming unions and rural groups have come together to condemn plans by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to dramatically increase the cost of on-farm permits.

The Government is being urged to consider introducing a relaxed visa system that would see migrants placed in rural communities for a minimum of five years to combat depopulation and the growing skills shortage.

More than £1million worth of machinery, tools and equipment have been recovered since the launch of dedicated rural crime team.

The UK egg sector is facing a situation as catastrophic as the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, a prominent producer has warned.

A crackdown on hare coursing led to more than 20 arrests in just one month, police in Lincolnshire have revealed.

Farmers are being warned that the cost-of-living crisis could lead to a rise in livestock thefts.

The Government has been accused of ‘failing to honour its promises to farmers’ after Defra Secretary Therese Coffey refused to set out concrete details for the future of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme last week.

Tress planted outside woodlands could be worth as much as £3.8 billion, a new Government study has claimed.