LivestockThe Welsh government will accept membership of Red Tractor, Pasture for Life and FAWL as evidence for the Measure and Plan steps of the Sustainable Farming Scheme's animal health cycle, cutting duplicated paperwork and vet costs.
AgribusinessNFU Mutual's Farm Fires report puts 2025 damage at £150m, over £400,000 a day, with east of England costs nearly tripling; the NFU wants better-funded rural fire services and a national wildfire strategy.
LivestockDynamic lighting that changes colour and intensity through the 37-day crop improved feed conversion from 1.5 to 1.47 in four broiler houses at IEC Poultry, saving an average £3,580 a crop.
CropsCertis Belchim's Areli, combining cyazofamid with valifenalate, a fungicide that also acts as a plant-defence elicitor, is registered in the UK for late blight in potatoes, with a full commercial launch in spring 2027.
LivestockThe Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board has appointed London Economics to update its assessment of the economic damage an African swine fever outbreak would do to Great Britain's pig sector, drawing on Spain's recent experience.
The Scottish National Investment Bank's £2.5M ($3.3M) backs MiAlgae's Grangemouth factory, which will ferment whisky by-products into DHA-rich microalgae as a fish-oil substitute for pet food.
CropsThe British Crop Production Council's October update lists new Syngenta and BASF fungicide combinations for cereals and two FMC cyantraniliprole products for potatoes and carrots ahead of 2027.
LivestockFrom 8 October the EU has blocked live birds, hatching eggs and fresh poultry meat from six named zones hit by avian influenza, while the rest of the three countries keep trading.
AgrotechDefra has confirmed eight J.R. Simplot strawberry lines, edited with CRISPR to switch off a gene that limits flowering, as precision bred organisms under England's new rules, moving them closer to field trials.
LivestockSixty Acres Farm near Truro averaged 12,351 litres a cow in 2025 on two milkings a day, which herd owner James Johns puts down to a simple, consistent system rather than chasing yield.
AgribusinessLand agents in Cumbria, Wales, Devon and Somerset say auctions are still drawing strong local and overseas bidding, with several blocks of bare land selling well above their guides.
HealthOn World Mental Health Day the DPJ Foundation's Kate Miles said drought, wildfires and bluetongue have piled pressure on farmers and asked them to take stock and seek support before winter.
OpinionSally Ormiston of Rural Solutions argues in Farmers Weekly that diversification has become a long-term strategy for resilience and should begin with what a family wants to achieve.
