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Paul Gentry reviews the year so far.

This year we have all become living history, an integral part of events which will be analysed for many years to come.

If you are looking for a great book which captures farming life in Scotland have a look at Eilidh MacPherson’s ‘300 Farmers of Scotland’.

Just a few days ago ‘Desert Dorset’ was a dust bowl. The milking herd has been on a full silage diet as there was just no grass and no growth as it has hardly rained for more than a month.

Beef industry terminology, grading and branding vary across the globe. In the second part of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, Farmers Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the differences between the UK and US.

Lucy Hinch, 20, from Rutland, comes from an arable farm along with 216,000 free range layers. She is currently studying an agricultural degree at Harper Adams University.

So it is now official, the UK is in recession as a result of two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Securing planning permission for new agricultural tied dwellings has eased succession planning for three generations of farmers. Farmers Guardian reports.

During my early-teen growth spurt I had skinny, matchstick legs and gigantic size-12 feet which I could barely control. This made me hopeless at football – this was in the1980s and Peter Crouch had not surfaced yet.

All Government departments must be aware that introducing friction at the UK-EU border will have a major effect on pig production, processing and herd health, says Ed Barker, senior policy advisor at the National Pig Association.