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Farmers will have to adapt their businesses to meet climate change targets, but what does that mean for food production? Ewan Pate speaks to former NFU Scotland president and co-chairman of the Farming for 1.5 degrees project, Nigel Miller, to find out.

It is getting dry. Locally, light land is practically burning up, heavy soils look to be about 10 days behind and last year’s bumper silage crops look like they will be needed.

I am now an expert (almost) in all manner of virtual meetings. I’ve also been made very aware of how poor my connectivity is on the farm.

Good soil health is one of the drivers behind strong grassland results. Hannah Park reports.

Peter Duthie, 24, is a third generation mixed farmer from Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, and works as an operation manager at Scottish Pig Producers Ltd.

Initially launched in 1998, McHale’s 998 square bale wrapper has secured itself as a favourite of contractors and farmers alike, when making silage with square bales. Alex Heath finds out what to look out for on a used model.

It is hard to believe that only three months ago the country was battered by floods week after week, with news channels covering evacuating communities by boat whose homes were under water. All that after the wettest February on record.

With a bug for invention, making their farm more profitable while utilising the available forage is a priority on one Shropshire farm, leading them to assemble their own zero grazing setup. Alex Heath reports.

Swarms of locusts have wreaked havoc on farms in Pakistan, wiping out swathes of winter crops and leading to fears of long-term food shortages.

WHEN it comes to feeding calcium salts farmers are being advised to take note of the granule size of various products following research carried out for Volac Wilmar Feed Ingredients at the University of Singapore.