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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.

Arla is to hold its member milk price until January 1, ahead of what it describes as a ‘negative outlook’.

Retailers Tesco and Waitrose have announced support packages totalling almost £17 million for egg producers and suppliers, while Noble Foods announces price rises from next month.

Dairy co-operative Arla has joined forces with charity Magic Breakfast to raise awareness about children’s hunger as a reported four million UK youngsters go without food each morning.

A new grant to help farmers in England better manage slurry is being introduced next month, the Government has confirmed.

The NFU is calling for urgent clarity on the future of the Seasonal Workers Scheme, amid claims the industry’s future rests ‘on a knife edge’.

The NFU has demanded action to protect egg producers as Tesco becomes the latest supermarket to ration sales amid the mounting crisis.

Seven sheep have been killed and at least 25 more injured in what Welsh police are describing as a ‘sickening’ attack.

Upto 1,000 hectares of Oxfordshire agricultural land is set to make way for a giant solar farm that could sit amid community allotments and bee hives, it has been revealed.