This month, Ian Potter asks whether milk contract legislation will actually be bad for the industry and questions the response of some industry organisations.

Faced with Covid-19 related contraction of demand for spring barley and oats, many growers will want to take advantage of the scrapping of the three crop rule and maximise wheat area this autumn.

Featuring a new cab with lower noise levels, greater comfort and dramatically improved overhead visibility, JCB’s latest Series III Loadalls promised many improvements. Simon Henley visits a dairy farm in Somerset to find out more.

It is that time of year again when there is intense tension between the agricultural community desperate to reduce bovine TB and those that seek to protect badgers.

The rollercoaster that is 2020 has changed again very quickly.

It is two years since the University of Nottingham’s 240-cow herd moved into the £6million Centre for Dairy Excellence. So what impact has the new facility has already had on cow performance?

With the window to get winter crops drilled likely to be tight this year, following a later harvest in some areas, crop nutrition may be neglected.

Kids are back at school, the nights are really drawing in and, thankfully, we’ve finished harvest.

Tom Bruce, 27, lives in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Brought up on the family farm, he studied a masters in engineering and is now back working the land.

Participation in GrassCheckGB has helped Welsh sheep producer, Anwen Hughes, slash costs of production simply through better management and utilisation of grass.