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The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board has appointed Helen Herniman as its new chief executive and accounting officer. 

More than 12,000 letters have been sent to local MPs in just 12 days urging them to “speak up for farming” ahead of the Autumn Budget. 

The Farm Retail Association (FRA) is celebrating 25 years of supporting communities with local food through farmers markets.

Farmers have been warned to prepare for potential incursions and trespasses by activist groups, following recent online activity suggesting plans for coordinated farm actions across the UK.

To mark Remembrance Day, we caught up with farmer’s son and British Army sergeant Rob Duchesne, about how he balances farm work and army life.

The NFU, the Worshipful Company of Farmers, JCB and other farming representatives will take part in the Lady Mayor’s Show this weekend to thank the public for its ongoing support of British farming.

Plans to build a Forest City on agricultural land on the Suffolk–Cambridgeshire border have been revealed.

British food producers can now benefit from export opportunities estimated by industry to be worth nearly £100 million, according to DEFRA.

A new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that the UK government is not adequately prepared for the most severe animal disease outbreaks.

Safety organisations have put together guidance on towing fuel bowsers to improve understanding of the agricultural exemption – after a growing number of life changing and fatal accidents in the farming sector across the UK in recent few weeks.

The former Rea Valley Tractors site in Shrewsbury has been put up for sale for almost £3,000,000. 

Leader of the opposition Kemi Badenoch once again called for the family farm tax to be scrapped and took a swipe at the chancellor’s “laundry list of excuses” ahead of the next Autumn Budget.