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Farmers face plummeting sugar beet crop price from £40/t to £33/t next year
Sugar beet growers across the south west will have to weigh their options as the price of the 2026 crop is slashed by more than a fifth. British Sugar and National Farmers' Union (NFU) Sugar sealed a deal today taking the price from £40 a tonne
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Charity issues warning about risk of sepsis after farmer nearly loses leg
A CHARITY is raising awarness of the risk of sepsis in the farming community. To mark Farm Safety Week, which took place last week (July 22 - 26), the Farm Safety Foundation has highlighted that almost a quarter of a million people in the UK after
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NFU president Tom Bradshaw meets Prime Minister at No.10
NFU president Tom Bradshaw met Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer this week as part of a select few business representatives invited to No.10. The reception – the first the government has held since the election – was an opportunity for business leaders
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The ban on the live export of animals from mainland Britain has come into effect
The ban on the live export of animals has come into effect. This ban means it is now illegal to export livestock for slaughter and fattening from Great Britain. The Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act applies to journeys from, and transit
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Potential new solar farm among latest planning applications
An application submitted to Wiltshire Council has revealed that a new solar farm could be built south of the A342, near Pewsey, 1.5km below the village of Wilsford. An EIA screening opinion was sent to Wiltshire Council in June by Ampyr Solar Europe
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New farmhouse plan for 'essential rural worker' refused
A NEW farmhouse for ‘an essential rural worker’ at Loders has been refused planning consent by Dorset Council. The application, for a three-bed house with four parking spaces on a grassland site Cloverleaf Farm at Yellow Lane was rejected for not
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Schoolchildren help to plant trees as part of unique 'roundel' scheme in Devon
A PROJECT to connect city children with farming is taking place in Devon. The Woodland Trust is working with Farms For City Children (FFCC) on a scheme to create 'roundels' on farms. These 'roundels' will be temporary enclosures containing trees
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Stolen tractor recovered in Dorset
A STOLEN tractor was recovered in Dorset. The farm vehicle was found and recovered by members of the Dorset Police rural crime team, after it was stolen in a burglary at a farm in Hampshire. Officers from the rural crime team followed up on