Farmers' Â£40m foot-and-mouth bill
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A committee of AM finds the foot-and-mouth outbreak may have cost farmers millions despite not reaching Wales.
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The government confirmed Friday that cattle slaughtered on a farm in southern England tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease.
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ROME - Donor nations have pledged an additional $40m (about R264m) to help fight a devastating locust invasion in west Africa, but urgent action is now needed to tackle the crisis, the head of the UN&#39;s Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday.
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Tests on sheep on a Surrey farm suggest exposure to foot-and-mouth disease, officials say.
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Consumers are set to face a jump in meat prices as farmers pass on the cost of surging feed prices, a report warns.
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By ANDREW FORGRAVE Rural Affairs Editor  EACH day UK farmers supply 31m pints of fresh milk, 19.5m eggs and 11.6m loaves of bread to British homes. They manage 85% of the countryside and tend 10m cattle, 35m sheep and nearly ;m pigs.
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Tests have confirmed an outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a third farm this month, the environment ministry said Tuesday.
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British government sources have confirmed a suspected case of foot and mouth disease on a farm in southern England, BBC and Sky television reported on Wednesday.
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The farming industry in Wales speaks of its shock as a new case of foot-and-mouth disease is confirmed in Surrey.
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Food and clothing items should be labelled to show how much people were paid to produce them, MPs say.
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Payments to Australia's drought-hit farmers could be linked to climate change schemes, under new plans.
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Foot and mouth disease has been confirmed in British cattle close to the site of last month&#39;s outbreak near London, government sources said, according to television stations.
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I note that dairy farmers are expecting to get an extra $1.5 billion over the next year from Fonterra because of higher world prices for dairy products. Good for them.   But $1.5 billion spread over about 12,000 dairy farmers is unlikely to be saved.
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More action is needed to prepare the UK for any future foot and mouth outbreak, a senior Tory MP says.
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The Cumbria Farmer Network has taken over the work of the Rural Futures project.   Since the foot-and-mouth epidemic, Rural Futures has helped farmers gain grants to improve their businesses.
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A third outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed at a farm in Surrey.
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By Tom Scotney  Cattle farming in the West Midlands could be at risk because of high levels of bovine tuberculosis and difficulties making money from dairy products, regional farming chiefs have said.