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💉🐄 It is the first update to England’s bovine TB strategy in 12 years and includes an ambition to deploy a cattle vaccine and DIVA test by 2030
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📈 UK farm income rose 20% to £8.4bn in 2025, but Defra’s figures show an uneven year across agriculture
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📉 The survey estimates total GB barley area at 930,000 hectares, down 12% year-on-year
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Two Suffolk farmers living next to a former bomber base used GPS to draw the shadow of a B-17 Flying Fortress onto one of their fields that lay under the base' former flight path, then ploughed it with a tractor to create this striking temporary artwork! 🙌 🚜
📸 Downed Warbirds
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❗ Hungary has confirmed African swine fever in domestic pigs for the first time, prompting the culling of around 3,000 animals
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🇬🇧🫐 Lidl said the £500m figure reflects the value of sourcing contracts with British-based berry suppliers over the next five years
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Food security matters. Should government do more to protect it? 🇬🇧🚜
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Somerset’s farms, homes and businesses are to receive £50 million in new flood resilience funding after the county suffered one of its wettest starts to the year
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Clearer labels would help shoppers back British farmers. Should supermarkets do more? 🇬🇧🚜
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This is exactly why we back our sheep farmers! 🐑🇬🇧
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Great to see the next generation of farmers getting stuck in! 🚜 🇬🇧
📸 Peter Gunn
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🚨 "Pig producers are facing huge uncertainty, and for many of these family farms this is not simply a commercial inconvenience; it is about the future of their business"
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💰 Farmers can now apply for projects with eligible costs of up to £200,000, up from the previous limit of £100,000. Successful applicants can receive funding for up to 80% of eligible costs
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British farmers follow high standards. Should imported food meet the same rules? 🇬🇧
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💥 Farmers For Action has accused the government of “missing the real target” on net zero, warning that ministers are focusing on diets while failing to back biofuels as a major alternative to fossil fuels
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🏅👏 Figures from across British agriculture have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours for their service to farming, animal welfare, sustainability and rural communities
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A few pence at the till could make a real difference at the farm gate. Would you? 🇬🇧🚜
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🐷 Pig sector leaders are urging restaurants, takeaways and foodservice suppliers to back British pork as farmers face falling prices, rising costs and contract losses
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