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Government urged to rethink import policy to avoid food shortages

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The incoming chief executive will adopt the role in a challenging climate, with increased scrutiny on the agency to effectively deal with multiple disease threats facing farming

The new BTV-3 Government framework sets out how disease control efforts will focus on movement control of susceptible animals and their germinal products as a precautionary tool to stem spread of the disease, until a safe and effective vaccine

Counties along the south and east coasts of England, including Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, and Sussex, are considered 'most likely to be impacted'

Future proofing this show season and those in the future was the main topic at the Association of Show and Agricultural Organisations Welsh conference

Court told animals were kept in a hazardous environment and given an inadequate diet

That was the message from new livestock board chair and Gloucestershire beef suckler farmer David Barton, who added the ‘unpredictability' of this strain of bluetongue was worrying

Poultry farmers and industry experts attended this years NFU poultry research seminar to discuss the latest news in the poultry industry. Ellie Layton reports.

Over 100 cases of the virus have been detected on farms in Kent, Suffolk and Norfolk since November 2023