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Ben Gratton, 18, is from a dairy, beef and sheep farm outside of Buxton in Derbyshire. He is currently working on a dairy and arable farm in Shropshire as part of his level 3 advanced technical extended diploma in agriculture at Reaseheath College.

Traditionally, the summer months are known in journalistic circles as ‘silly season’.

Dairy farmer Andy Venables farms in partnership with his family, milking 330 cows in Cheshire, selling milk on a Co-op contract. He is also managing director of Hillsgreen, a marketing agency dedicated to agriculture with many high-profile clients, including NFU and Cereals.

After one of the quickest and most straightforward harvests on record in most areas, the downside of the recent record temperatures and negligible rain is hard, dry soils. Jane Carley explores how to manage them.

Holstein UK president John Jamieson made a successful switch to organic milk production in 1999 and has just completed a five-year plan to modernise the facilities on the family farm near Dumfries. Wendy Short reports.

Farmers must not be forced to feed sheep a methane-suppressing diet which disrupts natural and well-established grazing systems, National Sheep Association chief executive Phil Stocker has warned. 

Concerns over the cost-of-living crisis are influencing the beef market, but demand remains relatively strong.

Dry weather and a lot of sunshine has been the recipe for an early and successful harvest across much of Scotland this season.

Farmers wanting to reduce their emissions to help reach net zero are being held back by a number of practical and financial barriers, according to a new report.

CF Fertilisers has announced it will temporarily halt the production of ammonia at its Billingham plant, which will stop the production of carbon dioxide