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As market analysts predict milk price rises into autumn 2022, dairy farmers who can maintain milk yields over this period will be in the best position to take advantage of this buoyant market.

Soil compaction often goes unnoticed in grassland soils and yet it can have an adverse impact on productivity comparable to the effect in cultivated soils.

Exploring all the options to increase milk from forage is yielding results on one Cambridgeshire dairy farm.

Machinery which is set up correctly lasts longer and makes better silage. These simple steps enable tedders, rakes and mowers to work effectively.

With the price of ammonium nitrate almost three times what it was this time last year, it is not surprising that many farmers are thinking hard about what they can do to mitigate this escalating input cost. And it is not just fertiliser prices which are rising.

The launch of an independent Tenancy Working Group to look at how tenant farmers can best negotiate the delivery of the new Environmental Land Management schemes has been hailed as a victory for the sector.

Demand was strong while supply had not recovered to the expected levels in 2021

LAND - they are not making any more of it. And, therefore, the price of it continues to rise as demand comes from a growing number of avenues.

A huge tranche of the hill land on the iconic Glen Dye Estate in the eastern Grampians has been sold for forestry and peatland restoration.