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NFU deputy president urges farmers to consider their mental well-being as part of Yellow Wellies' Mind Your Head campaign

Northern Ireland Environment Agency has confirmed submissions will now be accepted via email until 11:59 PM on February 14 2025

UFU urges Government to step up efforts to boost rural connectivity

Mr Kushnick has provided a timely reminder of how farmers can limit on-farm risks and keep safety at the forefront of their working lives

Farmers braced for more misery as Storm Herminia arrives on Sunday

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown takes a look at industry concerns following the Government's decision to refuse the emergency application of the use of neonicotinoid pesticide, Cruiser SB, on sugar beet in England for 2025, farmers are urged to be extra careful as Storm Eowyn hits the UK, and the Efra chair calls for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister to look at 'potential mitigations' to the inheritance tax reform

Farmers urged to prepare for multi-hazard weather event of high winds, snow and heavy rain

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Despite managing to save a majority of the farmer's livestock, Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team said a small number had died during the incident