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Wool returns have reached their highest level since 2018, driven by robust demand and strong auction prices, according to British Wool.

Five men have been jailed after an organised crime group targeted farms across Lincolnshire in a burglary and theft campaign causing losses of more than £785k.

Three bird flu cases have now been confirmed within days of housing rules being lifted, raising fresh concerns that the threat to UK poultry producers is far from over. The initial outbreak, identified on 11 April at a duck breeding unit near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, has been followed by two further cases confirmed on 14 April — one in Cambridgeshire and another in Lincolnshire. Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 was detected in commercial poultry near Great Shelford, South Cambridgeshire, while a third premises near Gainsborough, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, also tested positive. The Lincolnshire case near Gainsborough is understood to involve breeding ducks, while the Cambridgeshire case affects pheasants, highlighting the spread of the virus across different commercial sectors. The cluster of cases — two in Lincolnshire and one in Cambridgeshire — has emerged just days after the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) allowed birds in England and Wales to return outdoors. The timing is likely to alarm producers, particularly those with free-range flocks, many of whom had only just begun moving birds back outside. It also raises fresh questions within the sector about whether restrictions were eased too soon. Control measures have been introduced around all affected...

Britain’s reliance on imported fertiliser is leaving farmers and food production exposed to price and supply shocks, ministers have been warned.