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Matthew Rollason, 24, is from Great Harwood, Lancashire. He works in the agri-food research and development team for Dunbia. He has also established New Dawn Herefords and is an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador.

Cereals income were forecast to nosedive 43 per cent after a tough year

THE timed on-line auction of pedigree Longhorn cattle hosted by Harrison and Hetherington saw a top price of 3,200 for bulls and 2,000 for females.

Emma Harper, SNP MSP, is a dairy farmer’s daughter from Dumfries and Galloway and has been instrumental in toughening up Scottish laws around livestock worrying.

With tweaks to the line-ups of its mid-power tractors, Valtra has added more refinement and technology to its latest roll-out of fifth generation machines. Alex Heath reports.

This week’s edition of Farmers Guardian seems to showcase the full gamut of political interaction with agriculture, with varying degrees of success. 

New Scottish Government proposals for reducing emissions from slurry and silage stores have been met with a severe rebuke from NFU Scotland, with the union branding them ‘blunt and ill thought out’.

Europe enters a significant weather market with the next six weeks ‘crucial’

Farmers should confidently begin considering international exports to boost profits now the UK has left the EU, the economy is ‘steadily unlocking’ and the Government’s focus is on becoming ‘global Britain’.

As I sit and write this, the children have returned to school.