Is there a case for private bTB testing in cattle in GB? The answer isn’t straightforward.

September 2021 Arable Farming Issue

September 2021 Dairy Farming edition

As the year continues on apace, we entered the whirl of second cut. I’m sure I’m not the only wife/mother who goes through these times in an anxious state.

Farmers in the Midlands have until September 15 to apply for the final Farm to Tap scheme, focused on protecting water from metaldehyde.

With some good-looking forage maize crops this season, there is a strong argument for preserving that potential. What can be done to guard against the multiple threats in the clamp?

Adam Grieve on sale highlights.

Matthew Butterfield, 18, lives in Wimborne, Dorset. He is starting at Harper Adams University in September as part of the access to agriculture programme and will study a BSc in agriculture.

A long-term trial into seed-borne disease in cereals has seen bunt and loose smut re-emerge after just two years without seed treatments.

Put in layman’s terms, an agricultural common is an area of land which has an owner, usually described as The Lord of the Manor, who doesn’t farm it but  allows another farmer to graze it if they have either bought the right to graze it when they bought his/her farm, or else pays for the right via the tenancy of the farm he/she farms.