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NSW government has sought ‘urgent approval’ from the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority for farmers to use an currently illegal poison called bromadiolone to control mice on their properties (Photo: BBC News)

Australian mice infestation plagues nation's farmers
FARMERS IN Australia are under ‘siege from an unrelenting mouse plague’ which has seen millions of mice causing extensive damage in eastern parts of the country.

SCOTCH WHISKY exporters - and the barley growers at the start of the production chain - were being punished for a decade old disagreement about state aid for aircraft manufacturers

United States suspends Trump's tariffs on Scotch Whisky

Denmark began a mass cull last month when mink were found to have Coronavirus (Pixabay)

Bloated mink carcasses rise from mass graves in Denmark

The 'She Feeds the World' campaign provides resources and training to women in farming worldwide

Agri-tech firm backs 'She Feeds the World' campaign

Seaweed can be farmed in a variety of ways

Norway champions seaweed farming

Richard Hobson celebrating Herdsy's US market breakthrough

US ranchers do a deal with UK agri-tech pioneers

UK beef is heading back 'across the pond'

UK beef hits the US

EUROPE'S farm leaders want food security to be to the forefront when new climate legislation is under consideration Ref:RH280818013

Food security must always come first

WILD BOAR are the wildlife vector of African Swine Fever

African Swine Fever detected in Germany

Mink fur farms have been labelled 'virus reservoirs' for Covid-19 in the Netherlands (Pixabay)

Mink fur farms fast-tracked to close following Covid-19 outbreaks in the Netherlands

Tsetse fly in Burkina Faso (Pic: IAEA/commons.wikimedia)

Roslin takes on the tsetse fly

OUT OF the float and into the mountains, a European Bison is unloaded in Romania

Rewilding in Romania

Army veteran Nate Looney, pictured during work experience at Ouroboros Farms, Half Moon Bay, California (Pic: Susanna Frohman)

From swords to ploughshares

Zimbabwe farmland

Zimbabwe moves to compensate ousted farmers

Ship carrying thousands of dairy cattle has sunk on route from New Zealand to China (Photo - vessel finder)

Livestock ship carrying 5800 dairy cows sinks

Herding cattle in Kenya

Grazing know-how for Kenyan farmers

Slaughterhouse closures across the US have led to millions of animals being culled on-farm

Mass culling on US farms

Thai vets are battling their country's first ever outbreak of African Horse Sickness

African Horse Sickness confirmed in Thailand

Svalbard seed vault

Svalbard banks a million crop species

A WAYKI system being installed

An umbrella over fruit

JOINT UK-India delegation members are visiting farms as part of their information-gathering around Delhi, Haryana and Hyderabad

Helping Indian farmers reduce food loss

Farmers For Trump

'Moms' slam Trump GM move

A POPULATION of 12,000 reindeer roam the mostly empty Girjas Sameby (Pic: Funkjoker23)

Swedish court upholds Sámi land claims

Horses, donkeys and mules provide an essential mode of transport for many rural communities as well as carrying produce to market and assisting with physical labour on farms around the country

Horse welfare boost for Haiti's farmers

Half of the productive agricultural land that the South African state has purchased for land reform remains out of production

South African land reform stunts food production

GOATS getting milked by Wendy Barrie

'Non-cow' milk producers get together in Brussels

Germany and France to lead an EU movement to ban the shredding of male chicks

Plans afoot to end mass culling of male chicks

Farmers call for 'local quality production' as they come together to protest for agricultural policy reform

Protesters demand German farm policy reform

Kris Folland favours older machinery with no nonsense repairs (Pic: Twitter)

Out with the new and in with the old?

In the Nariel Valley, in the north of Victoria, Belinda Attree has had to shoot a number of the cattle injured in the bushfires with many other being left permanently scarred (PC: Belinda Attree)

Oz bushfires 'devastate' livestock

PREMIUM PRODUCT bought cheap

Milk price not covering cost of production in Europe

Lantmannen vodka

Farm co-op launches organic vodka

Only 180 sheep out of 14,000 survived the capsizing of a ship on route to Saudi Arabia (PC: Four Paws)

Sheep survivors rehomed following drowning disaster

Farmers are now accessing advanced satellites to provide near-live images of fields and crop damage

Satellite mapping boosts crop yields in Africa

A Sami reindeer herder drives his ATV as he follows a herd of reindeer on the Finnmark Plateau, Norway (Stoyan Nenov / Reuters)

Reindeer farmers fight for grazing rights

Brazilian cattle grazing

UK fast food fuels Brazilian deforestation

Dutch farmers took to the streets, beaches and parks in protest (PC: Anton Bartelen)

'No Farmers, No Food!' - Dutch farmers fight back

Some cattle at this feedlot in Illinois have travelled up to 800 miles to be fattened for slaughter without any means of traceability

US seeks to dispel food standards 'myths'

Amitabh Bachchan

Actor pays off Indian farmers' debts

Namibia rabies project

Cutting human rabies deaths

argentina crop laser

Lasers cut crop loss by 90%

Lantmannen chairman Per Lindahl

Swedish farm co-op keeps its promise

Strong yields for GB potato seed in Kenya

Swedes crack oats genetic code

Mob stocking – For sale: 22,000 ha of prime Tasmanian farmland

Tasmania’s largest farm up for sale

Panama disease wiped out almost all bananas in plantation across Central and Southern America in the 1950s

Modified bananas beat Panama disease

LAND ABANDONMENT in some parts of Europe, as young people shun farm work, is opening up space for rewilding of large carnivores like wolves – but sheep are already on the menu

Lone wolf makes first sheep kill in Belgium

Northern Irish pork heads to Australia

Research to improve the health and productivity of farmed animals in tropical climates has received a £4 million boost from the UK Government

Scottish livestock scientists to lead £4m African research project

Since 2010 there have been field trials in Kenya and Tanzania with an experimental vaccine which so far has proved to be 90% effective

Moredun vaccine trial success in sub-Saharan Africa

Spanish producers have improved their competitiveness through efficiency

US imposes hefty tax on Spanish olives

Cannabis plants growing as weeds

Legal cannabis market needs strength testing

BOAR-DAMAGED maize seen from the air(Photo: Anneleen Rutten, University of Antwerp)

Drones track wild boar damage

Swiss fair milk

Successful start for Fair Milk in Switzerland