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A Yorkshire beef unit which finishes 1,600 head a year is using co-products from the food and beverage industry as part of a balanced diet to help achieve growth rates of 1.8-2kg/day.

It is just over a week on from the incredible success of #Farm24. Huge congratulations once again to the team at Farmers Guardian for another spectacular event and massive thank you to sponsors Morrisons because without sponsors many dreams would not be realised.

The first harvest results for AHDB Recommended List (RL) winter wheat trials have been published. Results include three treated sites, two from Lincolnshire and one from Hampshire.

Malting barley prices were expected to remain under pressure this season, with AHDB figures revealing a 29 per cent drop in demand during June.

I am pleased to be hiding from the heat and catching up on office work. A week of 30degC heat (and more) and not a drop of rain has parched already severely dry ground and there is not a bite of grass over most of the farm.

Progress in wheat harvesting has been rapid in the last week or so, amid high temperatures, however, yields are very variable depending on soil type.

The Farmers Guardian supported Beltex Sheep Society’s premier sale at Carlisle saw a new auction record of 45,000gns set for a ram lamb and averages up on the year across all sections.

Scientists at the James Hutton Institute are working to understand the interactions between pathogen pectobacterium atrosepticum and an array of soil-microbe-crop interactions in the development of blackleg.

The flytipping scourge has continued with Davy Shanks faced with the cleanup of two tonnes of rotting meat

The Lynx UK Trust has singled out a forest near Loch Lomond, Scotland as a ‘lynx paradise’.