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British Wool have appointed Andrew Hogley as acting chief executive officer after Joe Farren stepped down due to ’personal reasons’

There’s no people like show people. Livestock shows, from the smallest village affair to the grandest of them all, are the heartbeat of so many like-minded people’s lives.

The struggle that has been 2020 has now reached November and I can only pray that it is not going to be as wet as October, which was the wettest October on record in our part of north east Scotland.

A family-run dairy business has overtaken the likes of Irn Bru and Cadbury’s to become the number one Scottish food brand in Scotland.

The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) has set out plans to explore the impact that different crop management practices and yields have on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The National Beef Association (NBA) has dismissed ‘lip-service’ from food wholesaler Booker on its support for the UK industry after finding product repeatedly ’over-labelled’ with a later best before date.

Significant differences have been identified in the resistance of leading commercial oilseed rape varieties to cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) feeding.

Concerns have been raised about the membership and powers of the beefed-up Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC).

A plan to protect and improve the health of honey bees in England and Wales has been published by Defra and the Welsh Government.