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Covid-19 has highlighted the agricultural industry’s ability to adapt and innovate during the most extraordinary of times. With this resulting in a surge in public support for agriculture, there is no better time to celebrate this as part of The British Farming Awards 2020.

Sainsbury’s has been accused of market manipulation after it told its dairy farmers to use two specific Aberdeen-Angus bulls for 20 per cent of all beef calves born on-farm in a 12-month period.

Following the creation of the Ruminant Health and Welfare Group, Hannah Park speaks to newly appointed chairman Nigel Miller.

Commentary on farmers being a resilient breed never seems far from the centre of debate in farming circles, but few have had to face a test as severe as the one met head-on in recent months by Simon and Jackie McCreery. Ewan

The UK has an opportunity to lead on preventing the spread of zoonotic diseases such as the coronavirus, the Co-op’s head of agriculture Caroline Mason has said.

The eagerly anticipated National Food Strategy (NFS) for England has set out a number of formal recommendations for protecting food production standards in trade deals.

Taking a lead from New Zealand where most dairy farms are using fresh semen, Cogent has identified a gap in the UK market which might provide an alternative solution to the needs of block calving farms.

Talk of broken supply chains is plentiful on agri-social media and in the farming press, but solutions are much harder to find.

Various processors have announced upwards moves in milk prices as Covid-19 lockdown measures continue to ease further.

Co-products have an increasingly vital role to play in safeguarding the sustainability of global agriculture and our planet, says Duynie Feed.