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Trade and Agriculture (TAC) Commission chairman Tim Smith has said part of the body’s job is to stop future trade policy from making food more expensive.

To use a spot of football jargon, the Brexit negotiations benefited from their very own version of ’Fergie-time’, that fabled bit of extra-extra time that would seemingly appear at the end of Manchester United games when the Red Devils were managed by Sir Alex Ferguson. The games would go on longer than expected but the desired result, for Sir Alex at least, was achieved in the end.

Identifying the elite females in a herd through genomic testing will increase efficiency and sustainability while improving profitability.

Exceptional feed efficiency and fertility drive the success of one family dairy farm on the edge of the Peak District.

Dairy farming is too often a marginal business, so there is a need to drive profitability, and genetics is a great place to start.

Making a difference to the environment within the company and for the wider industry has been the aim of Massey Feeds for 20 years.

Beth Menzies, 21, grew up on her family hill farm in Argyll, studied agriculture at Scotland’s Rural College and works as a shepherd in the Scottish Borders.

Harnessing the power of genomics is driving genetic gain and providing the key to improved herd performance on a Wiltshire dairy farm.

Feeding a sustainable dairy compound is helping one Cornish dairy farmer to meet the climate change challenge

The Government has granted an application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed dressing on sugar beet in 2021.