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Managing risks on farm will be more important than ever before, with organisation key

When you purchase a worming treatment from your local farm store or over the counter at your vets, you will have met a suitably qualified person (SQP).

A summer ball is being organised by young farmers to celebrate the90thanniversary of leading rural youth organisation The National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs (NFYFC).

The results across the livestock section from the Bath and West Show 2022

Oxfordshire County Council has not been able to verify the provenance of plant-based food served at its lunches, despite moving away from meat and dairy for environmental reasons.

INCREASED land values were raising barriers to new entrants to farming as natural capital and afforestation interest drive Scottish farmland markets according to a new report by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).

The culmination of two days of judging at this year’s Staffordshire County Show saw 18 breeds take to the ring in the sheep judging with the inter-breed title going to a Charollais yearling ewe from Grant Pink, Shropshire.

Held at the SRUC Crichton Royal Farm in Dumfries, the one-day event presented a wide range of grassland and forage machinery.

The standard pig price (SPP) has continued to rise with prices up 0.78p/kg in the week ending May 28 to a record 176.73p/kg, but it remains a long way short of soaring costs of production

As maincrop potatoes race through growth stages, the second article in our series following agronomists in the East and West, considers how to protect crops from blight and maximise yield potential.