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.
Regenerative is the new buzzword in farming and with good reason; it is for everyone
QMS board member and dietitian, Dr Carrie Ruxton, explores the nutritional value of red meat and the risks of switching to plant-based diets
Dan and Catherine Mercer, who run a suckler herd on the Salisbury Plains, have had great success with implementing an adaptive multi-paddock grazing system
A livestock vet is warning of the increased risk from flies this spring and urging early action to prevent costly losses following one of the warmest and wettest springs on record
Good quality maize silage is key to the beef finishing business ran by Edward Liversidge
Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno. His Farm Business Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill