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Wales bucked the trend in the rest of the UK with a good supply of farms on the market in 2020

A break in the weather has given us the opportunity to get out in the fields and try to get some jobs ticked off the list.

Sir David Amess, Conservative MP for Southend West, has called on the Government to adopt his Bill banning farrowing crates from 2027.

NFU president at the time, Sir Ben Gill, was one of the major figures of the crisis. Here, his son Ed Gill tells Hannah Binns how his dad handled the huge pressure and why the family remains proud of the role he played.

Constantly making small improvements can add up to a big difference over time, as the Hall family who milk pedigree Holsteins near Shelley, West Yorkshire, have found out.

This year marks 20 years since the foot-and-mouth crisis which devastated rural Britain. In this special look back, Hannah Binns talks to those who lived through the crisis and how it changed farming lives.

South American weather and its potential impact on corn production from Argentina and Brazil remains a key market factor in the near term. 

Seeing the images of burning pyres of livestock, reading the recollections of people who lived through it, and assessing the numbers which illustrate the scale of the foot-and-mouth crisis is a sobering process.

Making a realistic assessment of silage stocks and careful planning will be important actions to ensure winter forage supplies will last through to turnout says Dai Lewis, technical commercial manager with Massey Feeds.

Growers voted against the continuation of the levy for AHDB last month