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With the hotel, hospitality and tourist industries still in lockdown, you would think their purchasing power would be missed in the market with the knock-on effect being sharply felt at the farm gate with depressed prices.

The costly condition of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) can cause irreversible damage to a calves lungs, so producers should think about how to prevent it and know how to rapidly identify and treat it, says vet Tim Potter.

Australia’s farmers continue to reel from the devastating power of Mother Nature as New South Wales (NSW) was deluged by the most destructive floods in more than 40 years. Bruce Jobson reports.

A move to rotational grazing a decade ago is paying dividends for Scottish milk producer, Jim Baird. It has permitted a 25 per cent rise in cow numbers on the same acreage, while yields have increased by 30 per cent over th

Improving grassland management is helping a family team increase stocking rate, cut fertiliser use and produce more milk from forage through robots. Ann Hardy reports

Having now retired from his rugby refereeing career, Nigel Owens is busy developing his own farm in west Wales, with pedigree Hereford cattle at the core of his operation. Laura Bowyer finds out more.

With Leaf’s Open 51AVÊÓƵSunday event set to go ahead face-to-face when lockdown eases, as well as online, Farmers Guardian caught up with one farming family gearing up to welcome members of the public again this year.

With feed prices increasing, making the most from spring grazing will be crucial to maintain margins, according to Mark Oliver from Gallagher.

Grant Stephen, 23, from Dallas, Moray, is a general farm worker with a herd of 140 pedigree Simmentals. He has a small herd of pedigree Beef Shorthorns and comes from a farming family with 80 suckler cows and 500 breeding ewes.

AHDB’s We Eat Balanced campaign aims to protect long-term attitudes to British meat and dairy, by reassuring consumers they can be part of a healthy and sustainable diet. After the first three months, Olivia Midgley assesses the changes in consumers’ hearts and minds.