Incorporating maize into arable rotations can help control problematic weeds, while creating a low input, high value cash crop comparing favourably with feed wheat.

United Oilseeds managing director Chris Baldwin said he had ’never seen a market like it’. By Andrew Blake

Matthew Probert says support is available.

Climate change and biodiversity loss are recognised as the two existential threats to our civilisation and the next few years will see a major transformation in how we use land so as to tackle these crises.

November / December 2021 Dairy Farming edition

November / December 2021 Arable Farming Issue

With Brexit and the climate change agenda, the agriculture community probably felt the 2020s were going to be challenging.

Making the switch from brassicas to a winter grazing crop of rape, ryegrass and berseem clover has given one Welsh farmer an income boost while reducing soil erosion.

Rachel and husband Stephen and family farm 66ha (163 acres) mainly tenanted at Baildon, West Yorkshire. They milk 85 pedigree Holstein and Jerseys, selling milk to Meadow Foods. They also have an on farm vending machine. Their son, Ben, works full-time on farm and daughters Felicity and Zoe also work in the agricultural sector. Rachel is a director of the local farmers’ market.

As I sit down to write this we are in the middle of some seriously wet weather.