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Sheep attacks: zero tolerance ‘the only answer’
According to the rural crime team, using specially collated data has led to ‘significant’ drops in the number of rural...
bTB: dual host element ‘ignored for too long’
Bovine TB costs the UK Government £100 million a year and has a serious impact on the cattle farming industry. Targeting...
Calls for First Milk to reverse price cuts
"If everyone works together as an industry I am confident that the Scottish dairy sector will see market benefits both...
Liz Truss remains as Defra secretary
Elizabeth Truss has been re-appointed to Defra as environment secretary. Joined by George Eustice and Rory Stewart Elizabeth Truss has...
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Conservatives urged to set ‘positive farming agenda’
"We are also urging the Government to make an announcement as soon as possible on further roll-out of badger culling...
Wales modernises general movement licences
Licences have been made clearer to ensure they refer to all notifiable diseases, not just foot and mouth. GMLs clarified...
Cows’ eyes reveal how they feel
The study proved that cows’s show visible signs of pleasure at being stroked by someone they know. Whites of a...
First Milk to cut staff and milk prices
Member payments will be reduced by £3.3m overall. Turnaround plan is ‘no comfort’ to some UK farmers Dairy company First...
Maternal ability assessment set to improve
"The maternal ability EBV provides producers with a way to assess this commercially important trait". New approach takes into account...
Deadline extended for signing TB contracts
Fewer practices in Devon and Cornwall have signed the contracts, so the original deadline has been extended to 14 May....