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Bluetongue – NFU highlights 4 key asks in Efra Committee evidence session

Dairy Livestock +2

Red Tractor launches final four consultations – crops and sugar beet, fresh produce, pigs and poultry

NFU Sugar Poultry +4

Composite of rasberrries, carrots and salad leaves and potatoes

Consultation

Red Tractor launches fresh produce standards consultation – have your say

Horticulture and potatoes Farm assurance reviews +1

Open until 22 December 2026

Composite of chickens and turkeys. Photograph: Stuart Walker Photography 2026/National Farmers' Union

Consultation

Red Tractor launches poultry standards consultation – have your say

Poultry Farm assurance reviews +1

Open until 22 December 2026

Yellow combine harvester combining crops

Consultation

Red Tractor: NFU shapes major changes to Crops and Sugar standards – have your say

NFU Sugar Combinable crops +2

Open until 22 December 2026

A farmed landscape showing rolling hills, field boundaries and rural villages. Photograph: iStock

Farm business and support schemes – autumn/winter checklist

Environment and climate Farm business +1

Fertiliser resilience in action

Poultry NFU Sugar +4

The Beet Brief: Why falling world prices have not weakened the UK sugar market

NFU Sugar

Upcoming event

Workshop: Negotiation skills

17 March 2027, 09:00

Poultry Horticulture and potatoes +1

Consultation

Ofgem proposes rejecting seasonal energy support scheme – have your say

Energy

Open until 11 December 2026

Tom Bradshaw, 'A message from the President'

Watch now: Your weekly vlog from the President

member exclusive

NFUPro – NFU Autumn Budget 2026 breakdown

This Budget roundup is for NFU Pro members – a powerful network that unites service providers and the agricultural sector.

Farm business

Baby chicks in a poultry house

Consultation

Do you send poultry litter to biomass? We want to hear from you

Poultry

Open until 3 December 2026

Photograph: Alex MacNaughton / Alamy Stock Photo/ NFU

NFU’s road to the Budget 2026 – timeline of our work

Back British Farming Food security +1

Dairy farmer hands holding mobile device in a cow shed

Fair dealing rules must prove their worth as farmgate prices fall

Dairy Dairy contracts +1

NFU urges Defra to maintain crucial momentum on bTB

Dairy Livestock +2

Police car on a country road

Opinion

Handling activism on farm – a guide for livestock farmers

Dairy Livestock +2

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Consultation

Tenant farming – NFU Vice-president urges members to take part in new survey

Tenant farming

Open until 25 November 2026

Farm staff putting cluster equipment onto the cow's teats to milk the cows.

Opinion

Dairy market volatility exposes an unsustainable milk price gap

Dairy Dairy contracts

member exclusive

Grant funding and schemes tracker | 2026/27

Farm business Environment and climate +1

Seasonal poultry producers – are you listed on our Turkey Finder?

Poultry

Opinion

NFU Council: Combinable crops update

Combinable crops

Opinion

NFU Council: Horticulture and potatoes update

Horticulture and potatoes