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As the coronavirus lockdown became an imminent reality, it was no surprise that milk and eggsÌýwere among the basics that many families rushed to buy, says NFU president Minette Batters.

June 2020 Arable Farming Issue

June 2020 Dairy Farming edition

I am now an expert (almost) in all manner of virtual meetings. I’ve also been made very aware of how poor my connectivity is on the farm.

It is getting dry. Locally, light land is practically burning up, heavy soils look to be about 10 days behind and last year’s bumper silage crops look like they will be needed.

When Fiona and Richard Lamb left the Metropolitan Police in London to return to their farming roots, they had to think differently and have not stopped since. Farmers Guardian reports.

It is hard to believe that only three months ago the country was battered by floods week after week, with news channels covering evacuating communities by boat whose homes were under water. All that after the wettest February on record.

Peter Duthie, 24, is a third generation mixed farmer from Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, and works as an operation manager at Scottish Pig Producers Ltd.

With one of the harshest terrains in the South Island of New Zealand, Mount Nicholas Station is also home to one of the country’s largest herd of Hereford cattle. Laura Bowyer reports.