Cameron Knee, 28, is from Bath, Somerset, but currently works as a farm manager on a mixed farm in Aberdeen.
The Brown family from Aberdeenshire has built up a strong reputation for producing good quality grass-fed shearling rams and the best of replacement females for the commercial market each year. Katrina Macarthur paid them a visit.
A farming couple has spoken out about their mental health struggles in the hope that it may help others.
With current subsidy payments gradually being phased out, there will be little margin for error for sheep farmers. Maximising productivity and efficiency will become increasingly critical to business resilience, and farmers will need to seek every opportunity to make incremental gains in flock performance.
Nine years ago Mark and Tracy Weekes’ cattle enterprise at Silverton, near Exeter in Devon was devastated by bTB leading to a change in direction for the business. Rebecca Jordan reports.
After a break in 2020 many of the winners at this year’s Edenbridge and Oxted show were out in the ring for the first time, including supreme beef champion, Marne Macckia.
In what has been an all or nothing sort of year when it comes to grass growing weather, August is defying expectations and turning out to be bang on, with plenty of rain and warmth to boot.