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Farmers, conservationists and firefighters alike are united in their pleas to stop releasing sky lanterns in support of the NHS, owing to the dangers they pose to livestock and wildlife.

Wearable biosensors are being developed to help monitor the health of livestock, particularly dairy cows, with the aim of identifying the disease brucellosis at an earlier stage.

Rural tourism is worth £18.5 billion a year to the economy and employs over 600,000 people. Yet, almost overnight, many businesses have shut down for an unknown period of time.

“This year’s AgriScot is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 18th November and at present the expectation is that the event will be staged as normal” says AgriScot Chairman, Robert Neill

Pessl Instruments, the company behind METOS brand wireless, solar powered monitoring systems, has reported an upsurge in the number of remote monitoring stations requested around the world, due to the impact of Coronavirus and the need for farmers and agronomists to reduce unnecessary travel.

How one couple in Somerset are keeping local food suppliers afloat during Covid-19 crisis.

A progressive Suffolk farm is trialling the UK’s fastest growing agricultural weather station network service, to assess its benefits to the operation. David Williams reports.

Next week (13th-17th April) various farming charities are launching Farming Help Awareness Week, to raise awareness of how the farming community can be supported throughout Covid-19 and beyond.

In light of the fact that our farming community can no longer come together at upcoming agricultural events, AgriWebb is proud to announce their first Digital Farm Walk on Wednesday 22nd April.

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has welcomed clarification by the UK Government that furloughed workers will be able to seek alternative employment on the country’s farms if their contract allows.

Celebrating 35 years of the cooperative, and in the International Year of Plant Health, Scottish Agronomy is launching a new website and free membership trial which will also raise money for RHET.  

Turriff Show, Scotland’s largest two-day agricultural show, has today announced the cancellation of the 2020 event due to current uncertainty in light of the coronavirus pandemic.