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With limited improved pasture, silage ground at the James Hutton Institute’s hill farm in Aberdeenshire has to ‘punch above its weight’, as Ewan Pate found out.

The UK beef suckler herd is set to contract by 10 per cent because of rising input costs and a lack of clarity from all Governments about future policy direction, an industry leader has warned.

With limited improved pasture, silage ground at the James Hutton Institutes hill farm in Aberdeenshire has to punch above its weight, as Ewan Pate found out.

A pulse breeding team has been created to bring new expertise to breeding, pathology, molecular genetics, and field trial evaluations through a new collaboration.

Organic manures, healthier food and future-proofing the potato sector are topics the 2023 Nuffield Farming Scholarship scholars will investigate

Retail giant Waitrose has made farmers and producers the stars of its Christmas campaign as a way of thinking them for all their hard work this year.

Major buyers have announced more increases, or at least holds, in November, but it might be a different story come the New Year

Crowds gathered to watch the Holstein champion, Whinchat Stanleycup Farrah, take the coveted SuperCow championship at AgriScot, as the event made a return to the show calendar for the first time since 2019.

In a breakthrough for the British sheep genetics export trade, a new UK/USA ovine embryo export health certificate has been published which will allow the export of embryos from the UK to USA.

Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) is more widespread than previously thought, affecting beef and dairy cattle across the country, according to results from a new surveillance programme.