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Farmers Guardian’s news team talk about the latest in the food fraud scandal of South American beef being branded as British at a UK supermarket and Olivia Midgley speaks to RSPB chief executive Becky Speight

As grain prices trade at their weakest since the start of the Ukraine war, Cedric Porter takes a look at the factors impacting the market.

Political thinking around trade deals and agricultural policy risks undermining farmers’ roles in stemming the nature crisis, the head of the RSPB has warned.  

Fertiliser prices continue to fall and are now at pre-Ukraine war levels. It could mean that crop yields and production is boosted globally, putting further pressure on prices.

The Marshal Papworth Fund provides key support to students from developing countries. Emily Ashworth speaks to one scholar to find out how this will help her improve systems back home in Africa.

Research has highlighted the immediate priority for growers is to target grass-weeds already in the crop now, rather than waiting for more to emerge later in the spring.

Plans to destock common land on Dartmoor by 90 per cent have been labelled ‘draconian’ and ‘savage’ by farmers, who see Natural England’s (NE) latest policy as ‘rewilding by the back door’.

Five-year-old Zoe Elkington lambed her first sheep at the family farm

Cover crops can play as important a role in Scotland as they do further south but there are some management differences.