Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

The Clear Dip team and Bimeda Animal Health, experts in parasite control, have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at tackling one of the most pressing environmental and livestock welfare challenges: the safe and sustainable disposal of waste sheep dip. 

The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023, which allows the commercial cultivation of gene-edited crops in England, has now come into force. 

A national charity, Green Allotments, has been purchasing land and creating new, community-run allotment sites on small areas of agricultural land. 

Yorkshire farmers are able to access potentially lifesaving health and wellbeing checks when they head to a county livestock market. 

Farming campaigning group Farmers To Action confirmed that, as of today, it has formally dissolved its operations. 

The owner of a UK-based king prawn farm, along with the researchers behind the project, said that introducing the farms could create a thriving and sustainable domestic seafood industry.

Harvest 2026 is set to see a 30 percent rise in the oilseed rape compared with last year’s low level, along with a small increase in wheat, however, this will vary across the country, according to provisional results from AHDB’s Early Bird Survey conducted in early November. 

The UK government said it has acknowledged concerns over the scale of illegal meat imports to the UK, however, the EFRA Committee recommendations to tackle the issue will be considered once the SPS negotiations with the EU have been concluded and implemented – putting off powers to reduce alarming amounts of illegal imports until 2027 at the earliest. 

Welsh farming representatives have welcomed the cross-party House of Commons’ select committee report urging the UK government to delay its planned inheritance tax reforms.

Organisers of the Suffolk Tractor Light Parade 2025, which is set to take place next month, have warned the public to be cautious of scammers requesting payment to reserve a spot.  

Zoetis UK is calling on cattle farmers to complete a short online survey on clostridial disease in growing beef cattle to help understand their thoughts on the potentially fatal disease and the measures available to help prevent infection, including vaccination. 

The University of Nottingham has announced the suspension of a “small number” of academic courses, including its BSc in Agriculture.