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LARGE variations in numbers and quality are creating wide fluctuations in the prime lamb trade, with averages failing to tell the whole story.

Soil health has long been the focus for the Goodwin family. But it was the expansion of the livestock enterprise that was the ‘missing link’ in getting their arable land back to health.

Andrew Francis, former farms director of Elveden Estate, has?launched a new venture to help growers tackle?future industry challenges

Andrew Francis, former farms director of Elveden Estate, haslaunched a new venture to help growers tacklefuture industry challenges

EVENTS such as SIAL are more important than ever to the UK dairy industry, senior exports manager at AHDB Dairy, Lucy Randolph said.

Upto 1,000 hectares of Oxfordshire agricultural land is set to make way for a giant solar farm that could sit amid community allotments and bee hives, it has been revealed.

Industry groups have welcomed the news that the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has postponed its ‘reinterpretation’ of the rules surrounding animal health export certificates for 12 months.

A new estimated breeding value (EBV) to identify sheep with the lowest methane emission scores is due to be launched in the next couple of years. Wendy Short reports.

Production has dropped in Western Europe following this year’s drought

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.