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I am sure that we have all seen the usual ‘new year, new you’ adverts, slogans and promises littered all over the media and social media.

Breeders would face issues attending shows and sales in GB if the trading arrangements were not reviewed By Richard Halleron

Congratulations to fellow columnist Kate Beavan on her New Year Honour. It is great to see her efforts for agriculture being acknowledged in this way.

Happy New Year to you all and what a start to the new year it has been.

A 22-year old New Holland TX66 continues to provide cost-effective combining for one Gloucestershire farm, as Geoff Ashcroft found out during a recent visit.

Brothers Gavin, Alex and Bruce Paterson have made some big changes to the management of the Worstead Estate, Norfolk, among them a new Wagyu herd, changes to the arable unit, renewable energy projects and building restoration

Oliver Chapman looks back at the year in sales.

Potato growers have gone into 2021 with a little more confidence, with some price rises for packing material.

Rebecca Vining, 18, is from Bath, Somerset and works on an autumn-block calving farm.

Welsh farmers will continue to receive the same level of funding in 2021 as they received in 2019 – there is no need for worry about rural spending, says Paul Davies MS, leader of the Welsh Conservatives.