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As GrassCheckGB enters into its second year, Hannah Park caught up with two of the farms taking part in the initiative which is aiming to help farmers across Great Britain improve their grassland productivity and pasture util

We have now almost completed the spring work, with spring barley coming through the ground fairly evenly and its top dressing of fertiliser being applied at the end of last week.

Miles and Halen Partridge established their Rowbrook herd of Galloways in the 1990s, but despite the history of the herd they have eyes firmly on the future.

The annual barometer of native livestock breed numbers, the Rare Breeds Survival Trust’s watchlist, has been released.But what could some of these breeds could offer UK agriculture in the future?

A young farmer paid his own special tribute to frontline health workers by herding his sheep to spell out ’NHS’.

The first cases of blowfly strike in 2020 have been reported in several locations in the UK.

The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has expressed its concerns over a council’s decision to push on with the closure of Cowbridge livestock market, which could see farmers face a 45-mile round trip to sell their animals.

Thomas Carrick is part of a family-run upland beef and sheep farm in the North Pennines, near Alston. With pure-bred Swaledales to produce Mule lambs, they also run Salers cross cattle with Aberdeen-Angus calves which they finish at home.

None of us could anticipate just how altered the world has become in a matter of weeks. We are all affected by Covid-19, in so many ways, and it has never felt more important to reach out and communicate, both in our rural communities and more widely.

A new system of virtual farm inspections developed by Red Tractor to uphold standards during the coronavirus lockdown could change the way auditing takes place after the pandemic is over.