Precision grassland management and leader-follower grazing have turned the financial fortunes of a Scottish upland farm. Ann Hardy reports.

The winter period, and all of its associated feed costs, will have motivated many farmers to start reassessing their future feeding strategy. Faced with ever fluctuating feed and milk prices, more and more farmers are looking to improve business margins by increasing the amount of milk they produce from forage.

Lucie Trapp is a 23-year-old sheep farmer based in Sevenoaks, Kent. She set up her lamb business in 2019.

With lambing almost finished, we are down to just eight to lamb and it is time to reflect on how it all went.

What a great time to be a new entrant.

Pasture-fed livestock are promoted as good for the environment, but it’s the human health gain that is the prime driver for Anna Blumfield who returned to the family farm eight years ago. Jack Watkins reports.

Labour’s Shadow Defra Secretary, Luke Pollard, discusses the party’s new rural policy review.