Harvest is well underway here in North Yorkshire, albeit at a snail’s pace.

You always know that autumn is drawing near as the movement of livestock in and out of our West Wales valley increases.

A thread on Twitter about British wool recently, got me thinking. There has been lots in the farming press and social media about the very low price of wool most years, but particularly this year.

Summer is over and the kids are back to school. All the rain has made it another fairly growy month, which has this corner of the countryside looking nice and green with plenty of grass in front of both fattening lambs and Mule gimmers.

Few farmers get to start from a blank page, but upon arrival at Sharcott Farm on Exmoor, that is exactly where Simon and Sarah Keily first found themselves. Rachel Lovell reports.

Flavian Obiero, 29, is a pig unit manager at Plumpton College in East Sussex.

Trends in farming come and go, but at the very heart of livestock breeding is a group of enthusiasts who support their breed through thick and thin. Sarah Todd reports.