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I started my year attending the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC). It was the first time I have ever attended an agricultural conference.

I started my year attending the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC). It was the first time I have ever attended an agricultural conference.

Without a doubt, one of the major challenges UK dairy farming has is environmental, and businesses will have to adapt to survive.

Common sense, it would appear, has made an unlikely return to Government and facilitated positive steps between the UK and EU in relation to Northern Ireland in the post-Brexit era.

Hannah Senior is the creator of the Innovating AgTech and Plant Breeding Stories podcasts, available on all podcast platforms. She is a passionate advocate for Agri-Tech entrepreneurship. Her own company, PBS International Ltd, works with plant breeders

At the beginning of January my parents went on a well-deserved holiday to Egypt.

Our farm road is the absolute bane of my life and has been ever since I started to drive.

NFU president Minette Batters was entirely right when she told delegates on the first morning of her union’s conference that Government’s seemingly blase attitude towards food production needed exposing for what it was, naive.

Eleanor Durdy, 28, works on a family-run arable farm alongside being a criminal barrister.

There has been bad news this month - and I’m still coming to terms with it - Ken Bruce’s announcement that he is leaving BBC Radio 2. Who saw that coming?