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We certainly are living in strange and scary times. At the beginning of the month, I had a decent amount of bookings in the diary for the bed and breakfast.

Agricultural spray drones could be used as a rapid solution for accurately and automatically disinfecting urban areas contaminated with coronavirus.

As farms across Scotland begin the spring work in earnest everyone is having to use common sense in their working practices to minimise the risk of contracting Covid-19 or spreading the disease.

In these unprecedented times, farming’s pivotal role in feeding the nation has been brought back into sharp focus.

The UKs largest milk and grocery doorstep delivery service, Milk & More, has launched a large-scale recruitment drive as 25,000 new customers rushed to sign up to the service during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The dairy company have launched a campaign to recruit up to 300 additional key workers to help manufacture and deliver essential dairy produce.

The coronavirus crisis has exposed the Government’s failure to think about food policy, and it needs to be properly considered now, says Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City, University of London.

The economy must be drastically rebalanced if rural communities are to be shielded from the worst impacts of coronavirus, says Llyr Gruffydd, Plaid Cymru’s Shadow Rural Affairs Minister.

2020 started badly, and has only got worse since, but it still has the potential to go out on a high, says Leicestershire arable and beef farmer Joe Stanley.

Workers at Moy Park and ABP Food Group factories in Northern Ireland staged a walk out following concerns social distancing measures were being ignored by the companies.