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The recovery in sales of new tractors over 50hp in June has proved to be something of a false dawn as registrations recorded in July plummeted by 44% compared with the same month last year. According to the latest Agricultural Engineers’ Association (AEA) statistics, 868 units were registered in July...

Some welcome news for hard-pressed dairy farmers whose incomes have been seriously affected by the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. Defra has announced that it is extending the deadline for applications for financial support through the Dairy Response Fund. Dairy farmers now have until Friday, September 11 to submit their...

Some 38% of arable soils across England and Wales are degraded according to a new, easy-to-use ‘soil health’ measure developed by scientists led by Rothamsted Research. This is compared with less than 7% of grassland and woodland soil using the same analysis methodology. Developed from the findings of a number...

The month of June saw something of a recovery in new tractor registrations in the UK. According to the Agricultural Engineers’ Association, 932 tractors (+50hp) were sold last month. Whilst this is a vast improvement on the figure of 586 tractors sold in May, June registrations still showed a 15%...

The NFU’s campaign for the setting up of a Trade and Agriculture Commission to address the challenges of safeguarding the UK’s high food and farming standards looks to have met its prime objective. Following intense lobbying by the NFU on behalf of the British farming industry, the government has agreed...

A petition launched in February by the NFU calling on the government to preserve and protect UK food standards against the threat posed by future imports of lower standard food has attracted one million signatures from the British public. The milestone was passed soon after an Agriculture Bill amendment which...