In the new series Jeremy Clarkson and his team urgently need to come up with creative new ways of making ends meet at Diddly Squat, so hatches a plan to turn a profit from hundreds of acres of unfarmed land - thick woodland and hedgerows that make up half of his farm

Last year we fenced off a stream gully which runs through the middle of the farm

Company says more tests will be carried out post-harvest 2024

The winter’s remarkably wet conditions will have led to soil compaction, silting and nutrient losses

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

Prolonged rain during winter and spring has caused surge in grassland weeds

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Eagle-eyed showgoers at LAMMA 24 would have spotted a brand-new trailer on the Bunning stand in addition to the brace of spreaders on display. Farmers Guardian finds out why the company has returned to trailer production and what the new range has in store.

Chris Dodds highlights live ring demand

Angus-based farmers, Neil and Jillian McEwan, researched various livestock possibilities before deciding that goats were the best option for them. Lynsey Clark finds out more.