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With many family farms reliant on one person to handle the financial side of the business, Wilsons Solicitors LLP Martha Swann gives her advice on making plans to keep the business running.

Fittingly, it was the Lincoln Red champion which claimed the beef supreme championship at Lincolnshire Show.

The Scottish Government has announced funding for its new Preparing for Sustainable Farming (PSF) grant scheme. Ewan Pate explains what farmers need to do to qualify.

The newly-elected chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee Sir Robert Goodwill has voiced concern that the Government is not quite ready to deliver parts of the ELM scheme.

The UK and EU were still at loggerheads over the export of seed potatoes to the continent

Minimising cultivations, lowering grain drying requirement, reducing synthetic fertiliser inputs and using urease and nitrification inhibitors can reduce a crop’s carbon footprint by up to 41 per cent while sustaining yield.

A war of words has broken out within the top ranks of those deciding future agricultural policy in Scotland.

The newly-elected chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee Sir Robert Goodwill has voiced concern that the Government is ‘not quite ready’ to deliver parts of the ELM scheme.

A mixed farming family from Co Durham has become one of the few non-dairy enterprises to win the Durham Grassland Society’s overall silage competition. Katie Fallon reports.

Growers considering entering the market warned to consider the high capital costs and risks involved