At the time I pitched this article, Defra announced changes to the Sustainable Farming Incentive to ensure that food production remained the primary purpose of farming – I think that farmers already know this is the purpose

A traditional approach to dairy farming is paying off for a first generation tenant farmer. Chloe Palmer went to meet him

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

Alastair Sneddon on Red Tractor and the weather

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