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Sheep and beef farmer Gill Vollum decided to step up her efforts to communicate to the public about farming after hearing about her son’s conversations at school. Clemmie Gleeson finds out more.

With drilling around the corner, Farmers Guardian explores key considerations for spring barley crops this season, whatever the end market.

My list of wishes in my last column didn’t include the biggest flood in the Waveney Valley since 1968, but it happened nonetheless and on Christmas Eve a nearby measuring station recorded its highest ever water level up by nearly 0.5 metres.

Kerry Gratton, 19 from Spalding, Lincolnshire, is a fifth-generation farmer living on an arable holding and is working towards becoming a rural surveyor.

Technology has been a saviour for most industries during the pandemic and digital disruption shows no signs of slowing down.

Ruminant medicines director for Westpoint 51AVÊÓƵVets, Jules Dare, gives advice to dairy producers on why quarantine protocols are vital, and how they can be implemented on-farm.

January has been a testing month so far; with heavy rainfall, sharp frosts and even the odd attempt at snow.

Fencing has expanded to be about more than just keeping stock in their designated field, as Jane Carley discovers on meeting with an ambitious young contractor.

February already. Time flies while you are having fun, or the older you get, the more time flies.

Matthew Probert on an unpredictable year.