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Public heath officials are still working to uncover the source of a Covid-19 outbreak at a vegetable farm in Herefordshire, where 73 seasonal workers tested positive for the virus and a further 200 were told to isolate.

Weather extremes hitting both sides of the spectrum so far this year has made for a challenging grass growing season to date. Hannah Park finds out more.

Celebrity farmer and food campaigner Jimmy Doherty has told Farmers Guardian’s Over the Farm Gate podcast that Covid-19 has helped bring a new appreciation of farmers.

Industry leaders have reacted angrily to comments from the new Trade and Agriculture Commission chairman, who called for an end to the ‘alarmism’ around chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef on his first day in post.

In Cambridgeshire, Cassia winter barley yields are looking ‘suprisingly okay’ says Tom Mead of Mead Farms in Foxton.

UK farmers do not need a comprehensive trade deal with the US to capitalise on American opportunities, NFU international trade director Nick von Westenholz has said.

Be careful what you wish for. After weeks of dry weather and wishing we could have just a bit of rain after first cut, the weather broke with a vengeance and we seemed to be instantly transported into autumn.

Small abattoirs are being failed by a lack of joined-up thinking from different Government bodies, Emily Miles, chief executive of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), has said.

I don’t know what it is about writing these articles, but it seems to make time fly at an even greater rate than usual.