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LivestockWith midges still active and BTV-3 expected to overwinter, the UK's chief vet and farm vets urge dairy farmers to vaccinate, including youngstock, as vaccine supplies improve.
LivestockThe Defra-funded UK Dairy Carbon Network, led by AFBI, is testing nutrition, breeding, animal health and nutrient measures on farms across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, increasingly in combination.
AgribusinessCiting the worst drought in 50 years and the largest bluetongue outbreak, the NFU's Treasury submission sets out five demands, from a £5m investment allowance to reversing inheritance tax changes.
EnvironmentThe Welsh Government will allow slurry spreading until 15 November 2026 on all soils, with limits, and raise advance SFS and BPS payments from 70% to 80% of claim values.
EnvironmentDefra closed Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on the afternoon it opened after the whole £233m budget was allocated, leaving many farmers without an agreement.
LivestockA six-week Red Tractor consultation would cut dairy requirements by 25% and beef and sheep requirements by 33%, while adding heat shade, feed safety checks and tighter nutrient rules.
AgribusinessGlens of Antrim Potatoes, which grew and packed potatoes for supermarkets across Ireland for more than 50 years, has ceased trading after cost pressures left it without a solvent option.
LivestockMore than 40 hill farmers say in evidence to the Efra committee that a rewilding narrative has captured parts of Natural England, while the agency holds that many protected sites remain in unfavourable condition.
LivestockThe Small Infrastructure Grant, open since 17 September to farms inside and outside the Sustainable Farming Scheme, pays a standard £40 a square metre with a £1m indicative budget for 2027-28.
LivestockGillian Martin told the Scottish Parliament's climate committee that a shortfall in transport emissions savings would force a rethink of how statutory targets are met, reviving a debate the 2026-2040 climate plan had closed.
LivestockNewton Farm near Brecon doubled its lucerne to 12 hectares and grazed twin lambs to 320g a day through a rainless summer in which the rest of the 344-hectare sheep and beef farm stopped growing, and now plans to put 15-20 per cent of the farm into the crop.
CropsAn overwinter cover crop of endophytic meadow fescue, rolled and sprayed off before strip-tilled sugar beet, left just 0.3 aphids per plant against five after a standard cover crop in a British Beet Research Organisation trial at Morley Farms, offering growers a non-chemical lever against virus yell
Czech tractor maker Zetor says energy, labour and material costs make manufacturing in Brno uncompetitive; once current orders are finished, its sub-130hp tractors will be built in India and later China, with the new 5-series sourced from Turkey's Hattat, while headquarters and engineering stay in B
