Arable

Tim May has made some big changes to the Kingsclere estate over the past decade, shifting from entirely arable to incorporate grassland and three livestock enterprises. Clemmie Gleeson finds out more.

In Scotland, as in the rest of the UK, the Tories are preparing to sacrifice farmers on the Brexit altar by trying to prevent the Scottish Government from maintaining EU standards, says John Finnie, Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands.

With more than one million people backing food standards by signing the NFU petition to protect them in law, we may yet force the Government’s hand on this issue, says Tim Farron, agriculture spokesman for the Liberal Democrats.

Bayer will pay up to $10.9bn (£8.8bn) to settle cancer claims linked to itsglyphosate-based herbicide Roundup.

The first combines across the UK are starting to roll with winter barley being cut in south west Scotland for crimping.

A spread to watch as we head into new crop will be the imported maize price compared with domestic feed wheat delivered to feed mills.

BYDV management, yield expectations and drilling dates were among the topics raised at the AHDB East Anglia Monitor Farms summer meeting.

French insect-based animal feed and fertiliser company Ynsect has just gained approval for its natural insect fertiliser YnFrass from ANSES, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety.

Farming Minister Victoria Prentis has told the NFU she is ‘thinking long and hard’ about establishing a Trade and Standards Commission, just two weeks after publicly rejecting the idea at Cereals.

Farm owners and managers have been urged to help shape a new education programme, which will aim to develop homegrown talent for the agricultural industry.