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With harvest now underway around the country, Cedric Porter takes a look at the market for barley this season

In the last of our series on cultivations, Mike Abram looks at how they can be used to improve control of grass-weed species.

More than half (59 per cent) of small abattoir owners are preparing to shut up shop over the next five years, new research from National Craft Butchers (NCB) has shown.

After recruiting and training your staff, you want to keep hold of them, but how? Jez Fredenburgh speaks to farm employers and employees about how to boost retention.

Finding the best feeds to match this year’s silage inevitably depends on how your own forage was made. But one thing applicable to every farm is the financial saving to be made by choosing a co-product to complement what you have grown.

Farmers have raised concerns about the UK Government’s new tree planting grant scheme, warning it is ‘deeply unattractive’.

Storm damage has led to winter barley and oilseed rape being flattened in some areas including Somerset and parts of East Anglia.

Farmers have raised concerns about the UK Governments new tree planting grant scheme, warning it is deeply unattractive.

The first AHDB Recommended List (RL) harvest results – from three winter barley trial sites in Dorset, Lincolnshire and the Scottish Borders have been published.

As the Government moves to tackle the ‘pingdemic’ adding to labour shortages in the food supply chain, Alex Black takes a look at the longer term structural issues causing concern in the processing industry