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You really only think of Christmas trees during the winter period, but farmers who grow our main piece of festive decor spend all year growing trees. Here are five farms in England where you can go to the farm to pick your Christmas tree.

Meg Goring, 22, is from Tosside, North Yorkshire. She works as a key accounts manager in external sales for Woodheads Bros, Morrisons.

Matt Slack is the fifth generation to work at EV Slack and Sons, a family butchers in Wadworth, Doncaster. But the 39-year-old has taken the world of butchery to a whole new audience after taking to Tik Tok just three months ago.

A new law to reduce farm equipment theft could come into force early next year after it received backing from MPs.

Further fears farmland is being put at risk from tree-planting have been raised after commercial forestry values rose by 15 per cent over the past year.

A scene in a Netflix festive film that appears to show a Great Dane let loose among a flock of sheep for comic effect, has been ‘called out’ by the livestock industry.

A love for the Jersey breed, and the nostalgic taste of traditional Jersey milk, has seen one young farmer in Cumbria develop a flourishing on-farm dairy business.

Farming has the highest workplace injury rate - almost four times above the all-industry average, new findings from the Health and Safety Executive have revealed.

Only half the amount of free range turkeys will be available this Christmas as a result of the avian flu outbreak, industry experts have confirmed.

In memory of farmer and talented stockwoman Hannah Brown, there is a campaign to raise awareness of sepsis in the farming community.