The effects of climate change on Britain’s farmers is coming under the spotlight in a Government report. Karen Dent reports on key points for the industry.Read
DEFRA ministers have told the Europe Union’s agriculture commissioner that his draft proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) fall short of meeting the key challenges he correctly identified some months ago – to make farming more productive and protect the environment.Read
CATTLE which test positive for bovine TB are to be DNA tagged following suggestions that some farmers have been swapping ear tags and retaining infected stock in their herds.Read
NEW restrictions on moving older cattle are being introduced as an "extra safeguard" to ensure animals which might have BSE do not enter the food chain, Defra has announced.Read
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