The Black Sea’s established ‘stranglehold’ on the UK’s organics market has sparked industry concern about the sector’s future.

Exports of red meat from the UK were worth more than £1.45 billion in 2021, up £33 million on pre-pandemic levels. Hannah Binns reports on AHDB’s Red Meat Export Conference. 

Gisburn Auction Marts has been fined £18,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,819 after an employee was fatally injured while helping to load a dairy bull into a lorry.

Removal of the 25 per cent import tariff on US maize will help mitigate limited exports from Ukraine and Russia and improve agri-food chains’ ability to maintain animal feed supply, industry chiefs have said. 

AHDB chair Nicholas Saphir has urged farmers to take a few minutes to register for the Shape The Future ballot and have their say on how the levy is spent in an open letter to levy payers.

Farmers Guardian News and Business Reporter Hannah Binns talks to Dave Handley, Paul Tompkins and Gary Mitchell, NFU Scotland’s milk committee chair about their thoughts on AHDB.

Understanding and thinking about cows’ innate and learned behaviours will help reduce on-farm incidents for farmers and veterinarians.

UK farmers have stepped up to the plate in their support for Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the Russian invasion, with farmers across the country offering accommodation. By Hannah Binns, Alex Black and Ewan Pate.

Zoe Norton, 30, is from Bures, Suffolk. She works as a CAD technician and runs G.A. Livestock alongside her partner, Gary Aungier. Bures, Suffolk

NFU Scotland has received a bashing from farming environmentalists and industry organisations over its Environmental Focus Area (EFA) derogation call.