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The winter period, and all of its associated feed costs, will have motivated many farmers to start reassessing their future feeding strategy. Faced with ever fluctuating feed and milk prices, more and more farmers are looking to improve business margins by increasing the amount of milk they produce from forage.

What a great time to be a new entrant.

Labour’s Shadow Defra Secretary, Luke Pollard, discusses the party’s new rural policy review.

Pasture-fed livestock are promoted as good for the environment, but it’s the human health gain that is the prime driver for Anna Blumfield who returned to the family farm eight years ago. Jack Watkins reports.

Iain Soutar on the strength of trade.

Disease symptoms are light in backward crops, with yellow rust only bubbling up in some susceptible varieties, according to Bayer’s National Disease Snapshot.