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Auctioneer and partner at GTH, Andrew Clements on dairy’s ups and downs

Auctioneer at Kivells Exeter, Russell Steer discusses the high demand in sheep trade

British agriculture was rocked to the core 25 years ago by the foot-and-mouth crisis. Have lessons been learnt at a time when the UK food supply chain is being compromised by illegal meat and cheap food imports?

Before his career in politics, Epping Forest MP Dr Neil Hudson was a veterinary inspector who was on the frontline of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2001. Dr Hudson remembers the once bustling farms which became empty, the impact it had on the sector's mental health, and why the current Government should never take the UK's national biosecurity for granted

Tenant Farmers Association chief executive George Dunn reflects on the outbreak 25 years ago, the heartbreaking conversations he had with farmers, the devastating open-air pyres of livestock being culled to stop the disease from spreading, and the determination of farmers to never let things become so bad again

NSA chief executive Phil Stocker writes on what was a truly difficult time for farming and why it should serve as a stark reminder, 25 years later, for the Government to never take the UK's national biosecurity for granted

Exmoor Farmers Livestock Auctions company manager Peter Huntley discusses a strong year’s trade

Auctioneer at Bentham Auction Mart, Will Alexander discusses the state of current trade

Cumbria based, Cathy Cassie, is a contact shepherd, and has not let being born without connections to agriculture limit her drive.

There is a narrative that family farms are fading and that the next generation is not interested. But, I simply do not recognise it.