Countryside news roundup for 5 September
Countryside news for 5 September

Country Life: Builders believed to have spread FMD
Guardian: Days of cheap food are over, say suppliers as ingredient costs soar
Telegraph: 'Send inner-city pupils into the villages'
BBC: Landowner duke dies at age of 83
Guardian: Veal, without the cruelty
Times: How man's best friend becomes birds' worst enemy on that walk
Farmers' Weekly: Wheat quality down on last year and mixed results for barley so far
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