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🚜 Tesco says low-carbon fertilisers must move from trials to wider farm use to help protect British growers from price shocks

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🐌 Farmers could soon be able to target slug control more precisely after a Defra-funded project developed maps predicting where the pest is most likely to strike

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Taxpayer-funded food should support British farmers wherever possible. Do you agree? 🇬🇧

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📉🌾 Great Britain’s barley area has fallen to its lowest level in 16 years as growers rethink rotations in response to weaker margins, rising costs and changing demand

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💚 Agricultural consultant Nigel Davies is urging farmers to seek help early after caring for his wife through terminal cancer

“If something doesn’t feel right, don’t ignore it”

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Once farms disappear, they don’t come back easily. Share if you stand with British farmers 🇬🇧🚜

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❗️Celebrations for some, devastation for others. Balloons and livestock don’t mix

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So true! 🚜 🇬🇧

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The first of the pedigree Greyface Dartmoors have been born! 🐑 😍

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❗🐖 Hungary has confirmed African swine fever in domestic pigs for the first time, prompting the culling of around 3,000 animals. Fears are rising that the UK pig sector is not prepared enough for the risk of ASF

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British children, British schools, British farmers. Should this be common sense? 🇬🇧🚜

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🇬🇧🍓 British berry growers are set for a £500m sourcing boost after Lidl GB committed to new five-year agreements aimed at increasing home-grown volumes

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❗📡 Nearly one in five UK mast hosts could be affected, with some farmers and landowners already reporting rent reductions of up to 90% since the 2017 Electronic Communications Code reforms

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Taxpayer-funded food should support British farmers wherever possible. Do you agree? 🇬🇧

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🌧️ Somerset farms, homes and businesses are set for a £50m flood resilience boost after one of the county’s wettest starts to the year

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❌🥚 The supermarket says white eggs have a 12.7% lower carbon footprint than brown eggs

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Fair prices aren’t a luxury — they’re the future of British farming 🚜 🇬🇧

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❗️Celebrations for some, devastation for others. Balloons and livestock don’t mix

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Who agrees with this? 🚜 🇬🇧

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So true! 🚜 🇬🇧