This month Roger Evans reveals that he will never be afraid of media trolls, tells us why HS2 will be out of date before it opens, and finally fesses up to the fact that he is not a doctor after all.

April 2020 Arable Farming Issue

Winter-lambing Dorset sheep are the backbone of a new farming enterprise for brothers Matthew and Adam Care in Cornwall.

In theory, it should be fairly easy to farm while staying two metres away from every other human being. Open fields and solitary tractor cabs mean arable farming is fairly self-isolating at the best of times. There are clearly fewer face-to-face meetings than, say, being Prime Minister.

Food security, just a few weeks ago in happier times when Parliament was discussing the Agriculture Bill line-by-line, the Farming Minister and I slugged it out over food security, and frankly, very few people noticed, says Labour’s Shadow Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner.

The last few weeks have been rather like living in a parallel universe, where everything Brexit is a dim and distant memory, says Cumbrian farmer Will Case.

UK registrations of agricultural tractors (over 50hp) followed the typical seasonal pattern, showing a large month-on-month increase in March, which is normally the peak month for registrations.

This is an extraordinary time to be involved in our food and drink supply chain says Mike Rumbles, MSP for the North East of Scotland.

Helen Browning, Soil Association ceo and organic farmer, shares her thoughts on how the UK can build a more resilient and sustainable food system which would be less exposed to short term shocks and restore a safe climate, abundant nature and good nutrition with Government help. 

In virtually all grazing systems, cows will be exposed to production-limiting parasites. The presence of parasites does not always result in clinical disease, but the impact of parasite burdens on herd and individual animal performance can still be substantial.