IN the second part of his report from a recent AHDB-led export mission to the USA, Ben Briggs assesses the opportunities afforded by the country’s vast food retail scene and also learns about plans to host a large delegation of foreign meat buyers at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show.

Yellow rust has become a bigger yield-robber than septoria for one Midlands farm, despite him farming some distance from the disease’s traditional eastern counties hotspot.

Government inaction on sheep worrying is ‘undermining and contradicting’ its own animal health and welfare strategy and leaving farmers and their flocks powerless against dog attacks.

Farming organisations have congratulated Humza Yousaf on winning the Scottish leadership election race to become Scotland’s new First Minister.

When you mention farming, many think of grassroot careers, but there are many more interesting and diverse careers in this thriving and vibrant sector.

We need to talk about the uplands. For years it has felt like farmers in the uplands have been fighting battles on all fronts.

Calving is well underway with our senior cow Julia kicking things off in mid-February with a lovely heifer calf.

Apart from our grass fields being animated by lambs and calves and the odd daffodil begrudgingly enduring the frosts, snow and rain, there are no obvious signs that spring is around the corner here just yet.

James Nixey, 26, is from Chinnor, Oxfordshire and works as a self-employed electrician while supporting and getting stuck in on the family’s mixed farm.

Herd health and fertility performance is continuing to approve according to NMR’s latest key performance indicator (KPI) report.