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A Leicestershire farm which generates 85% of its power requirements from a wind turbine has recently been announced as winner of a sustainability award. Jonathan Wheeler reports.

The processor said it will do everything it can to support its farmers and protect the security of supply.

Defra has launched a £12.5 million competition to help accelerate the development of technologies to create new sources of resource efficient, low-emission proteins.

Kathryn Rowland has been at Kingshay for 20 years and originally hails from a dairy farming family. Heading up Kingshay’s farm services team, she has overseen the recent publication of the 11th edition of the annual Dairy Costings Focus Report.

Farmers in England could receive funding by helping Defra test its Annual Health and Welfare Review.

The cooperative said it was vital they continued to support their farmers as cost pressures continue to squeeze margins

The rollout of a usable cattle vaccine for bovine TB (bTB) will not eliminate the need for badger culls, veterinary experts have warned.

Food security must become a key focus of future agricultural policy as new statistics revealed the huge uncertainty farmers were feeling due to rocketing input prices.

Advance Basic Payment Scheme payments are being issued to farmers, with the large majority expected to receive them by the end of July, the Rural Payments Agency has announced.

Grazing and glass bottles are two essential elements of one Pembrokeshire dairy farm making a success of direct selling. Chloe Palmer reports.