Advice

UK dairy farmers could be missing out on thousands of litres of milk every year by failing to manage the risk of ketosis in their herds. Debbie James reports.

Growers can now assess and benchmark their soil health, and obtain management recommendations using the Soil Health Scorecard.

An increase in agroforestry is essential to meet nature and climate targets, while securing long-term food production, a new report from the Woodland Trust has shown.

An increase in agroforestry is essential to meet nature and climate targets, while securing long-term food production, a new report from the Woodland Trust has shown.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has set out changes to taxation in his Autumn Statement

Consider spring herbicide programmes carefully to avoid carryover of residual activity from spring applied sulphonylurea (SU) herbicides, particularly if it remains dry and then turns wet later in the season.

Suckler calf weaning weights are an important measure of any suckler herd, to understand herd performance, output and profitability.

Farmers have been told to ignore flood warnings ‘at their peril’ as the UK gears up for another winter of extreme weather which could see a repeat of the devastating storms that ripped through rural communities last February.

Even the best farmers cannot farm forever, but succession planning is still a thorny subject for many farming families, exclusive findings of a survey conducted by Farmers Guardian for the CLA reveal.

The Welsh Government has defended its decision not to issue a national housing order just hours after a further outbreak of avian influenza was discovered at a captive bird site in North Wales.