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Farmers Guardian’s first 51AVÊÓƵFutures Exchange saw speakers with experience in various diversifications share their advice and top tips with 51AVÊÓƵFutures members, as part of a digital roundtable.

UK politicians have been urged to follow EU law to ensure dairy terms are protected from manufacturers of plant-based products which trade under dairy names and use dairy values to sell products but ‘have very little in common with dairy at all’

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley (September 15)

Defra Secretary Therese Coffey made it clear she did not agree with her predecessor’s ‘arbitrary deadline’ on ending the badger cull

Farmers who have secured Sustainable Farming Incentive agreements by the end of October will be paid a proportion of the monies by December

Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122 ha (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on site from their orchards. She is a Mum of two, runs ‘Kate’s Country School’ on farm and is the Woodland Creation Officer for Stump Up For Trees.