A switch to regen has improved profitability at Tregooden Farm for Malcolm and Catherine Barrett

Sheep shearer and award-winning farmer Matt Smith is in New Zealand for the 20th Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships, which will take place in Masterton, New Zealand, from March 4-7 at the War Memorial Stadium. The event brings together top shearers and wool handlers from 28 countries and features machine shearing, blade shearing and wool handling.

After the lack of forage in many areas in 2025 due to the drought, this season could see increased interest in growing fodder beet on livestock farms

The pedigree bull sale at the Royal Northern Spring Show at Thainstone peaked at 13,000gns for the champion Simmental

Borderway UK Dairy Expo 2026 will feature a new headline award, elite cattle from the UK’s leading herds, an international panel of judges and a major trade exhibition

Maize silage is a critical part of the beef ration at Shoby Priory Agriculture in Leicestershire, where close to 1,000 cattle are finished annually

David and Jo Clarke set out to make farmhouse Red Leicester the way it was originally intended, and their raw milk Sparkenhoe is now named the world's Best Territorial Cheese

There was a big crowd at Barnard Castle for the Farmers Guardian supported show and sale of show potential cattle where the majority of entries were seven to 12 months of age

After a run of wildly different seasons, maize variety choice is no longer a straight yield chase and maturity is about protecting harvest timeliness, soil and starch per acre

For Prosser and Steph James, making better use of the resources they had on their Welsh farm without taking on big financial risk was key