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• RamCompare seeks new farms for upcoming testing season

  15-04-2025 11:06 via farminguk.com
  
  The UK’s leading sheep progeny testing project is looking for new commercial farms across England and Wales to take part in the upcoming sea...
  
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• MPs warn inheritance tax shake-up could cripple tenant farming sector

  18-05-2025 12:23 via farminguk.com
  
  Tenant farmers could face major financial fallout from looming inheritance tax reforms, prompting cross-party MPs to urge the government to ...
  
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• Drought-battered farms need support now, say coalition of groups

  17-05-2025 19:23 via farminguk.com
  
  Farming and environmental groups are calling on the government to act now to protect Britain’s food supply as fields across the country are ...
  
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• Over 650 dairy cattle to be auctioned at two major dispersals

  16-05-2025 14:47 via farminguk.com
  
  More than 650 head of cattle will go under the hammer in Shropshire over the next fortnight, as auctioneers prepare to conduct two major dai...
  
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• High Court to hear legal challenge over badger cull licences

  16-05-2025 13:14 via farminguk.com
  
  A legal challenge brought by wildlife activists against Natural England’s decision to issue badger culling licences has been granted permiss...
  
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• Global project seeks to breed greener sheep to curb climate change

  16-05-2025 12:18 via farminguk.com
  
  An international collaboration is aiming to reduce the environmental impact of sheep by harnessing genetics to breed animals that emit less ...
  
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• Updated shearing guidance aims to safeguard flock health this season

  16-05-2025 11:22 via farminguk.com
  
  Sheep farmers are being urged to take shared responsibility with shearers to minimise the risk of disease during this year’s shearing season...
  
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• Crown Estate unveils 15-year tenancies to drive regenerative farming

  16-05-2025 11:22 via farminguk.com
  
  Three 15-year environmental farm business tenancies (eFBTs) are being offered by the Crown Estate as part of its push to promote regenerativ...
  
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• Farmers told to act now as unusually dry spring threatens feed supplies

  16-05-2025 10:45 via farminguk.com
  
  Livestock farmers are being encouraged to assess their feed needs and make contingency plans as unusually dry spring weather puts pressure o...
  
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• MPs urge delay to 'family farm tax' as trust in government crumbles

  16-05-2025 09:07 via farminguk.com
  
  A cross-party committee of MPs is calling on the government to delay its inheritance tax reforms to avoid harming family farms and restore t...
  
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• Public Health Wales urges hygiene after 81 infected following farm visit

  16-05-2025 01:05 via farminguk.com
  
  Public Health Wales is urging visitors to farms to wash their hands thoroughly after 81 people have fallen ill in a parasitic outbreak linke...
  
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• Environment Agency says inspections 'not here to catch farmers out'

  15-05-2025 15:50 via farminguk.com
  
  The Environment Agency is urging farmers to see inspections as opportunities to improve, not punishments, as part of a new campaign to clari...
  
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• Farmer boosts yields and cuts fertiliser use by 25% with new approach

  15-05-2025 12:48 via farminguk.com
  
  A Welsh farmer cut fertiliser and pesticide use by 25%, boosted yields and reduced labour with a new approach to grassland and arable farmin...
  
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• Heat lamp sparks barn fire killing 800 goats in Yorkshire

  15-05-2025 11:30 via farminguk.com
  
  A blaze that claimed the lives of hundreds of goats in a barn in East Yorkshire has been attributed to a fallen heat lamp, according to Humb...
  
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• MP warns UK must not trade away gene editing progress for closer EU ties

  15-05-2025 10:38 via farminguk.com
  
  An MP is urging the UK government to protect 'hard-won' gene editing rules from being watered down in post-Brexit talks with the EU.Form...
  
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• Foot-and-mouth controls eased on German imports but EU ban remains

  15-05-2025 10:12 via farminguk.com
  
  The UK government has now officially recognised Germany as free from foot-and-mouth (FMD) without vaccination, following a case of the disea...
  
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• Mixed-use farm spanning Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire hits market

  15-05-2025 09:46 via farminguk.com
  
  A rare opportunity has arisen to acquire a significant mixed-use agricultural estate spanning Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, for nearly £...
  
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• Scotland leads organic farming growth as England lags behind

  15-05-2025 09:21 via farminguk.com
  
  Scotland is setting the pace for organic farming in the UK, with the latest data showing a 13% increase in organic farmland in 2024, while E...
  
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• Labour's farm tax plan slammed by US ag secretary as 'a problem'

  14-05-2025 17:35 via farminguk.com
  
  The government's proposed changes to inheritance tax for farms has come under fire from the US Agriculture Secretary, who warned it could th...
  
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• Ayrshire farm fined £600 for environmental breach

  14-05-2025 15:02 via farminguk.com
  
  An Ayrshire farm has been fined £600 for breaching crop cultivation rules, prompting Scotland’s environmental regulator to urge farmers to f...
  
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• Experts warn government land use plans could threaten food security

  14-05-2025 10:37 via farminguk.com
  
  Experts have raised concerns that the UK government’s proposed Land Use Framework could undermine agricultural resilience and jeopardise foo...
  
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• Risk of blowfly strike rises to 'red alert' for three regions

  14-05-2025 10:06 via farminguk.com
  
  Farmers in three areas of the UK are being urged to take early preventative measures as the risk of blowfly strike rises to 'red alert' stat...
  
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• US Ag Secretary pledges to put 'American farmers first' amid UK trip

  14-05-2025 09:35 via farminguk.com
  
  The US Agriculture Secretary has met with Defra officials in a bid to bolster the recently announced trade deal which is set to deepen agric...
  
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• Wales targets TB-free status by 2041 through partnership-led policy reforms

  14-05-2025 07:35 via farminguk.com
  
  Wales is making progress in its bovine TB eradication programme, with a collaborative approach driving policy changes and support for farmer...
  
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• 800kg bull rescued from bog in rural Wales

  14-05-2025 07:35 via farminguk.com
  
  A stranded 800kg bull was dramatically rescued from a Welsh bog after becoming trapped up to his chest, sparking a two-hour operation involv...
  
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• UK bioethanol facing 'collapse' after US trade deal, producers warn

  14-05-2025 05:24 via farminguk.com
  
  Britain's two largest bioethanol producers have issued a stark warning following the UK-US trade deal, warning that it posed an 'existential...
  
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• Spike in calf scours drug resistance prompts call for preventative rethink

  14-05-2025 05:24 via farminguk.com
  
  Vets are being urged to reconsider how they manage calf scours, or diarrhoea, in light of new evidence showing a big rise in resistance to a...
  
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• Outbreak of parasitic infection linked to farm rises to 74 cases

  14-05-2025 05:24 via farminguk.com
  
  An ongoing investigation into an outbreak of a parasitic infection linked to visits at a Welsh farm has now confirmed 74 cases, with 16 indi...
  
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• Government urged to act as MP warns of small abattoir crisis

  14-05-2025 05:24 via farminguk.com
  
  The government has been told to take urgent action to support small abattoirs, as their continued decline threatens both rural livelihoods a...
  
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• Dry spring sparks concern for UK crop development, AHDB warns

  14-05-2025 05:24 via farminguk.com
  
  Farmers are now facing mounting concern over increasingly dry conditions that are beginning to hinder crop development, AHDB warns.Accor...
  
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