A person in the West Midlands has contracted bird flu after “close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds”.

SRUC has stepped up its commitment to global and local food production and security by becoming the first higher education institution in Scotland to open a commercial-sized vertical farm. Minister ...

The National Sheep Association (NSA) has urged sheep farmers across the UK to remain vigilant following confirmation of a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Germany last week. Although the cases ...

Domestically, UK feed wheat futures (May-25) closed at £191.20/t, up £0.45/t week-on-week, with Nov-25 futures rising by £2.15/t to £195.15/t according to AHDB. The global maize market bolstered ...

Lucia Slack, an NHS mental health nurse from Cumbria, has been awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship to conduct an international study on ...

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The H5N1 strain of avian influenza identified in cattle does not pose an increased risk to humans, according to a new UK study. Initially detected in milk samples from dairy cattle in Kansas and Texas ...

Oxygen Conservation, based in Exeter, has purchased Dorback Estate, a former shooting estate near Aviemore. The company’s website stated: “Over the next 12 to 18 months, we will be focused on learning ...

Jess the working dog at Little Galla races to check sheep on the snowy hillside.

Do you believe in Magic? The ‘magic’ in this case refers to a BBC headline last September – ‘How farms are using magic dust to capture carbon’. Or to quote Dougie Vipond on BBC Landward: “Is carbon ...

There will be schadenfreude – pleasure in someone else’s pain – among farmers over the mess Chancellor Rachel Reeves is in. It is entirely of her own making – the result of an ill-conceived Budget ...

An industry body has informed farmers that the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) own estimates of the impact of inheritance tax changes are 'highly uncertain'. This statement comes as ...