A John Deere 3050 4wd will be auctioned at the Cheffins Cambridge Machinery Sale on 14th June 2021, with all proceeds to be donated to Alzheimers Research UK.

An increased grant offering has been announced to encourage the planting of cover crops to improve soil structure on Midlands farms and protect water quality, as part of the wider Severn Trent Environment Protection Scheme.

It is easy to farm when your plough is a smartphone, and you live a thousand miles from the cornfield.

I am writing this on Thursday evening after a day away from the farm spent doing a social media photography course organised by our local machinery ring.

Amy Wilkinson works on her family’s tenanted farm in Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285ha of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

Jack Sadler is a 26-year-old graduate rural surveyor with CLM, a firm of farm business and environment consultants. From Cheshire, Jack is carving a career in the overlap between agriculture and conservation.

The lean business management approach has origins in the Japanese car industry but it can be adopted by a variety of industries, including the dairy sector.