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Andy Burnham’s new farming minister fainted "at the sight of meat" after becoming unwell during a tour of a beef freezer.

France has long built its reputation on high-quality, sustainable agricultural practices and world-renowned artisanal food production.

A farmer who allegedly shot dead a teenage burglar will not face any charges, prosecutors have said.

Attendees at Wednesday’s controversial Oxford Union debate on whether the West should be “suspicious of Islam” – which will host the far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (known as Tommy Robinson) – are being screened by Thames Valley Police to avoid disruption, Byline Times understands.

Milk is affordable on supermarket shelves. But for farmers, high prices of essentials including fertilizer, fuel, and feed have prompted production costs to shoot up, forcing many to boost productivity by “going big”.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb has launched an investigation into 21 Croatian citizens, including a public official and a former official, over suspected corruption and fraud involving EU agricultural subsidies from the EAFRD and EAGF funds.

Police have removed a blockade in central Dublin by farmers and hauliers protesting against fuel prices, indicating a possible end to six days of protests that have shaken Ireland.

Farming chiefs lobbied the UK government in a bid to avoid stricter rules around the use of antibiotics on livestock farms, despite the risks some practices pose to public health.

Labour will increase the inheritance tax relief threshold for farmers in a significant concession following backlash from rural communities.

Police had banned tractors from Whitehall, but farmers angry about Rachel Reeves’s tax changes brought their budget day protest to Westminster anyway.

A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has initiated legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies.

A British cheesemaker says it has suspended milk collections from a Cornish farm following allegations of animal abuse.

A farmer in Ukraine says he will seek justice at the country’s Supreme Court after he was awarded 70 times less than he sought as compensation for mismanagement in the case of his stolen tractor.

The Arla cooperative says five in six farmers receive very few or zero applications for job vacancies

The prime minister is wielding his parliamentary majority to prevent a full-scale investigation into ministers suspected of wrongdoing.

Joe Grogan, 75, died just one day after marrying his carer Lisa Flaherty, 50, in a ’secret wedding’ at a registry office - his family had called for a detailed forensic investigation into his death

Hywel Williams given 12-month suspended sentence after telling court he ‘deeply’ regretted stealing animals

The UK will have to ban many pesticides, hitting food production, with farmers already reeling from Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid

An intrepid herd of pigs have been causing chaos in a Norfolk village by escaping from a nearby farm and digging up gardens while on the prowl for food.

US industry ready to drop demand to export chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef in move set to anger British farmers

Farmers and tractors have started to descend into London today to protest against the Labour government’s changes to inheritance tax.

Thousands of people have protested in London over changes to inheritance tax for farmers announced in the Budget.

Furious farmers have today descended on the coastal town of Llandudno in their tractors to express their anger at the inheritance tax rises announced in the Budget.

Sickness and death befell the former employees of a British farm who allegedly worked with pesticides. Now, they want justice.

A combination of 18 months of bad weather, Brexit and other international events have left confidence in British farming at an all-time low, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has revealed.