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Amid their most successful show season to date, the Metcalf family of Crossfell Holsteins are heading to this year's UK Dairy Day with a strong show team in tow

More cleaning capacity, greater separation area and improved durability lead Fendt’s latest IDEAL combine updates

Built for mud, muck and machinery, but civilised enough for the school run? In our new series, A Country Mile, Farmers Guardian Editorial Director Olivia Midgley takes the new Isuzu D-Max 2.2 for the ultimate test: farm life.

Welsh Mules are at the heart of the Hughson family's livestock farming business, which believes it is the best breed for producing ewe lambs for the breeding sales

From an 11-tonne Herdwick ram unveiled by the King to a new history of the Border Collie, sculptor Shawn Williamson's work keeps returning to one subject: the shepherds and sheepdogs of the fells

Faced with increasing difficulty sourcing spare parts, a Hampshire farmer opted for Claas’ entry-level, Chinese-built Evion combine to upgrade his ageing, yet trusty Laverda self-levelling hill-side model

Texels have been part of the Watkins’ family sheep production for more than 50 years and are now at the forefront of the system

Commercial mixed livestock farmers, the Stokes family, have long been turning out quality stock for commercial markets and in recent years have placed a focus on home-bred breeding lines

Investment in automation has earned an innovation award for an Aberdeenshire business which exports potatoes directly to Egypt, alongside running a 200-cow pedigree Aberdeen-Angus suckler herd

Sugar beet has come round in the rotation this season in a long-term sustainable farming systems trial on the 9000-hectare Elveden Estate