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🚜📉 The final harvest 2026 report shows a mixed but challenging year for UK arable farming
Winter wheat averaged 6.9t/ha, around 11% below its five-year average, while spring barley fell 17% to 4.8t/ha and oats finished 14% lower at 4.6t/ha
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The next generation needs something worth taking on. British farming needs an Autumn Budget that gives it a future 🚜🇬🇧
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🥛 Industry body Dairy UK says processors handling around 15bn litres of milk a year should be recognised as critical national infrastructure
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🥩 British red meat exports reached £1.1 billion in the first half of 2026, with beef shipments to the US up 71% and China taking nearly 40% of UK pig meat exports
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"To put a stop to this crime, we must see the police and wider criminal justice system use the powers available to them fully and consistently"
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✂️ British Wool has indicated that some core wool types could return more than £1/kg for the 2026 clip, compared with an average producer payment of 68p/kg last season and 40p/kg two seasons ago
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"It is only right that imported products seeking access to our market are held to equally high standards"
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❗ "The pig sector is going through another hugely turbulent period, just four years after the last crisis – and we face losing more producers and more of our critical mass, if things continue as they are"
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💥 Three Animal Rising activists have been convicted of stealing three lambs from the King’s Sandringham Estate after insisting they had carried out a rescue
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🌱 More than £3.5 million of funding has helped farmers and land managers deliver 190 projects across the South Downs National Park — and the scheme is now being extended for another three years
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🚨🐑 The latest bluetongue outbreak has placed significant pressure on both vaccine supplies and laboratory testing capacity across Britain, according to government vet officials
There have been over 1,800 cases of bluetongue across the UK
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🚨 Farmers and rural businesses in North Yorkshire are being urged to tighten security after two Nissan Navaras were stolen overnight and police reported fresh concerns over quad bike and tool thefts
Rural patrols have been stepped up
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🚜🌧️ Scottish farmers and crofters are set to play a bigger role in national flood resilience plans, with measures covering farm water management, tree planting and natural flood control
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Three Animal Rising activists accused of taking lambs from the King’s Sandringham estate have told a court they believed Charles III would have consented to the animals being removed
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Defra is considering changes to the SFI application system for 2027 after this year’s main funding window filled within hours
The department says it is “exploring alternatives to a first come, first served application process for SFI in 2027”
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