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Antimicrobial benchmarking can bring more benefits to a farm business than just reducing usage, was the message from Dr Tim Potter, VetPartners, speaking at a Dairy-Tech seminar.

British added-value products were in demand in South America but exporters needed to know their market to succeed.

With chlorothalonil (CTL) no longer available for cereal disease control, growers are looking at what alternatives they can use.

There are three main challenges faced by large and intensive dairy businesses, said Dan Brown, of Australian Fresh Milk Holdings (AFMH), New South Wales, Australia.

Having a plan in place for retirement and what you will do when you can no longer farm sounds easy in theory, but in practise it continues to be one of the thorniest issues facing the industry.

Sustainability nearly always goes hand-in-hand with efficiency, but there are also some examples where something is sustainable but perhaps not efficient, said dairy farmer Neil Baker from Somerset.

The TFA said the lump sum scheme could increase land mobility

With drilling around the corner, Farmers Guardian explores key considerations for spring barley crops this season, whatever the end market.

My list of wishes in my last column didn’t include the biggest flood in the Waveney Valley since 1968, but it happened nonetheless and on Christmas Eve a nearby measuring station recorded its highest ever water level up by nearly 0.5 metres.

Kerry Gratton, 19 from Spalding, Lincolnshire, is a fifth-generation farmer living on an arable holding and is working towards becoming a rural surveyor.