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Stilton sales are down 30 per cent since the start of the coronavirus crisis as shoppers opt for bulk buying of hard cheeses while restaurant demand has collapsed.

Firstly, I would like to start by acknowledging the fantastic job Christine Ryder has done writing this column for the past five years. She is truly a hard act to follow.

Prime minister Boris Johnson intervened twice to stop the Derbyshire badger cull going ahead, court documents have revealed.

Dairy Farmer commentator Christopher Murley tells us about his Jersey herd in far flung Cornwall.

There is much good in the Agriculture Bill, but its failure to protect farmers from low standard imports is very serious, says Daniel Zeichner, Labour’s Shadow Farming Minister.

Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has called on Government to provide financial aid for sheep, goat and buffalo milk producers who have seen their supply chains devastated due to Covid-19.

£1 from the sale of every Morrisons’ ‘British Farmers Food Box’ will be donated to farming charities via The Prince’s Countryside Fund to help producers negate the impact of Covid-19.Ìý

Welsh Government’s failure to consider how to protect food security in its post-Brexit policy proposals was flagged as a major concern by respondents to a key consultation, held before the coronavirus pandemic.

An amendment to the Agriculture Bill which would have banned low standard food imports from entering the UK was defeated in the House of Commons by 51 votes last night.

A new mastitis test to reduce antibiotic use on dairy farms is being trialled through an on-farm ‘field lab’ with Innovative Farmers.