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From torrential rain to a heatwave within a matter of days. July threw the proverbial kitchen sink at us in terms of weather conditions.

What a blessing a warm July has been for us, allowing us to crack on with harvesting, cropping, drilling, cultivating, packing and whatever else needs doing to keep us in business.

All our sheep were finally shorn by the first week of July and the conversation soon moved onto the well-documented price we will receive for the wool.

A family has paid tribute to their three-year-old ’blue-eyed boy’ who died in a farm incident near Carmarthenshire. 

For many farmers, the cost and availability of straw has focused the mind on other options for bedding sheep, with slats often high on the list.

Plots from one of the oldest continuous field trial sites in the UK and the oldest in Scotland have been relocated to make room for house building.

A man from Hereford who stole £87,640 worth of sheep has been sentenced to eight months in prison.

Do you ever get the feeling that some politicians and Ministers have little or no empathy for British agriculture?

Edward Lord, 19, is from Market Drayton, North Shropshire and has recently completed his first year of studying agriculture with business management at Aberystwyth University.

Industry must stop tolerating the ‘reckless behaviour’ of using mobile phones while driving tractors, quad bikes and heavy machinery.