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THE seven-year-old stock bull, Ampertaine Jackpot, led the trade at 20,000 at the dispersal of the Inland Pasture herd of commercial breeding cattle on behalf of Simon and June Cadzow, Berwick upon Tweed.

As AHDB Potatoes begins to wind down activities following the ballot vote in March, it has announced the AHDB Market Intelligence provision of potato price information will cease in July.

Recent research found found supplementing sows with oregano essential oil (OEO) has the potential to increase margin over feed value by 59 per sow per year, and increase the number of piglets weaned.

A GDPR lawyer said the attack on JBS highlighted any business in the food supply chain was susceptible to an attack

I am writing this on Thursday evening after a day away from the farm spent doing a social media photography course organised by our local machinery ring.

With Ash Dieback present across 56 per cent of the UK, farmers and landowners have been urged to check their trees this summer for signs of the disease. 

It is easy to farm when your plough is a smartphone, and you live a thousand miles from the cornfield.

A proposal by dairy lobbyists to ban any resemblances between milk products and plant-based products has been dropped by the EU parliament.

Amy Wilkinson works on her family’s tenanted farm in Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285ha of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

Back for 2021, farming’s biggest online event #Farm24, in partnership with Morrisons, will celebrate British farming; sharing the farm to fork journey and showing the huge variety of roles and responsibilities taken on by farmers up and down the country.