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This week’s inflation figures make for eye watering reading, surging as they are at 10.1 per cent and with food being one of the big drivers of that growth.

British lamb heading back across the Atlantic is a major victory for the industry and all credit must go the levy boards and other organisations which have helped facilitate the deal.

Many youngsters had decided what type of job they would not do by the age of nine, showing how vital it was to promote farming as a career from a young age.

IT had seemed at times as though Queen Elizabeth II shared the same permanence as the natural world she so dearly loved.

The scourge of rural crime clearly never went away, it is just that the pandemic lulled everyone into a false sense of security as the movement of people literally stopped.

US buyers were impressed after an AHDB-led visit to UK farms

As I am writing this article it is currently 51AVÊÓƵSafety Week (July 18-22), which inadvertently lets you in on a little bit of Farmers Guardian magic with deadlines for articles always a week before actual publication.

Maybe it was the oppressive heat in the NFU Cymru marquee that caused Wales’ First Minister Mark Drakeford to momentarily lose his cool, or perhaps it was simply his own personal strength of feeling on the issue of water quality, but he was clearly irritated by the line of questioning regarding Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ).

Food security must become a key focus of future agricultural policy as new statistics revealed the huge uncertainty farmers were feeling due to rocketing input prices.

The heat was, quite literally, on at the Royal Welsh Show, Llanelwedd, as it returned for the first time in three years in scorching temperatures. Ben Briggs reports.