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Lucie Trapp is a 23-year-old sheep farmer based in Sevenoaks, Kent. She set up her lamb business in 2019.

With lambing almost finished, we are down to just eight to lamb and it is time to reflect on how it all went.

What a great time to be a new entrant.

Recent research has concluded that feeding mealworms a diet of wheat bran combined with the enzyme phytase significantly increases their mineral composition. Hannah Noble reports.

Reseeding is a reliable way of increasing productivity and quality of grassland leys, but several factors should be considered before taking action. Hannah Noble reports.

Retailers must bear the brunt of price wars within their ’already generous’ margins rather than pass the cost to primary producers, Tenant Farmers Association chief executive George Dunn has said. 

The first dedicated independent study into the miscanthus carbon life cycle shows that the crop is net carbon negative, capturing net 0.64 tonnes of carbon (2.35 tonnes CO2e) per hectare, per year in the soil at least.

Tesco has been fined £7.56 million for selling out-of-date food at three stores in Birmingham.

CHAROLAIS bull sold to 7,600gns at Welshpool to average 4,419.13 with a 58 per cent clearance rate.

AHDB’s potato storage research team has worked closely with industry representatives to submit a position paper to the Chemical Regulation Division (CRD) of the HSE.