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With tweaks to the line-ups of its mid-power tractors, Valtra has added more refinement and technology to its latest roll-out of fifth generation machines. Alex Heath reports.

This week’s edition of Farmers Guardian seems to showcase the full gamut of political interaction with agriculture, with varying degrees of success. 

Cereals income were forecast to nosedive 43 per cent after a tough year

Emma Harper, SNP MSP, is a dairy farmer’s daughter from Dumfries and Galloway and has been instrumental in toughening up Scottish laws around livestock worrying.

Matthew Rollason, 24, is from Great Harwood, Lancashire. He works in the agri-food research and development team for Dunbia. He has also established New Dawn Herefords and is an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador.

New Scottish Government proposals for reducing emissions from slurry and silage stores have been met with a severe rebuke from NFU Scotland, with the union branding them ‘blunt and ill thought out’.

Europe enters a significant weather market with the next six weeks ‘crucial’

Farmers should confidently begin considering international exports to boost profits now the UK has left the EU, the economy is ‘steadily unlocking’ and the Government’s focus is on becoming ‘global Britain’.

Scottish farm businesses saw a 36 per cent drop in income in 2019/20, with farm chiefs saying the statistics highlighted the sector’s reliance on support.

Bulls sold to 7,200gns and a new female average of 3,934 was set at the inaugural Hereford Cattle Society spring parade and sale at Shrewsbury which was supported by Farmers Guardian and had a 95 per cent clearance rate.