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New market in Chile sees the first exports of pigmeat from the UK this month

New market in Chile about to relish first exports of pigmeat from UK
British pork is heading to Chile this month to fulfil the first commercial order since market access was granted earlier this year.

French farmers fear a trade deal with New Zealand would see thousands of tonnes of half price lamb htting their shelves

38,000 tonnes of half price lamb heading to EU market

The loss of neonicotinoid seed treatments had a huge impact on European growers - except those who have since found ways round it

Romania using emergency measures to permit banned neonicotinoid pesticides

A Highland cross cow a long way from home – on a farm in Queensland, Australia

Considering a farming gap year? Australia awaits you!

Farmers down under are worried foot-and-mouth disease could come from the recent outbreak in Indonesia

Livestock farmers in Australia fear foot-and-mouth disease could come in from Indonesia

Farm vehicles stopping traffic near the border of the Netherlands and Germany (Pic: VINCENT JANNINK/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Farmer protests spread across the EU in Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany

Ankole bull Cumulus sports a stunning set of six foot wide horns

New record for Ankole bull with 6 foot wide horns at South Africa auction

A French farmer has won a court battle to turn off a 4G mast he blames for killing his cows

French farmer wins battle to turn off 4G antenna after claims of damaging cow herd’s health

African Swine Fever has moved 500km to the border between Germany and France

African swine fever moves 500km to the French border with Germany

US dairy farmers stand to gain €55m over DeLaval robot milker failings

DeLaval ordered to pay $55m compensation to US dairy farmers

Pork products can spread the ASF virus to other pigs

Beware of spreading African Swine Fever in a discarded sandwich!

Smith slams lack of protections for Scotland’s farmers

ANIMAL WELFARISTS and farmers have raised serious concerns that the Free Trade Agreement with Australia opens the UK market to a flood of beef and lamb imports produced to lower - and cheaper - animal welfare standards than are legal here

Inquiry launched into Australia free trade deal

UK PIGS are currently free of African Swine Fever - and the country's pig producers would prefer to keep it that way

It is time to stop pork imports

COWALERT will now be installed to monitor 11,000 dairy cows in the US

Scottish dairy tech adopted in the USA

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

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