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A well-known Exmoor farmer has spoken out about his story of dealing with mounting pressures on his farm while battling colon cancer.

Britain’s Indian community have called on the UK to take action to support farmers protesting against agricultural reform laws. Minreet Kaur reports.

Alana Black has a Bachelor of Communication – Public Relations and in 2018 was announced as an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Trailblazer for her work on communication and succession planning in family farming businesses. Alana, who now lives in Aberdeenshire is a freelance agricultural communicator and a Rural Youth Project vlogger.

April 2021 Dairy Farming edition

Tabitha Salisbury is an Education and Public Engagement Programme Coordinator at LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming). Growing up on a tenant farm in the South West, Tabitha went on to study Agriculture at the Royal Agricultural University. She is currently based in Morpeth, Northumberland.Ìý

Molly Biddell is part of the Savills Rural Research team, specialising in agri-environmental policy, natural capital and net zero. She has recently been appointed as an ambassador for LEAF Open 51AVÊÓƵSunday. Her family run a diversified farming business in the west of Surrey, and she continues to muck in whenever she can.

Defra Secretary George Eustice has defended the Government’s intention to phase out badger culling in England, despite the policy having more than halved disease incidence rates.

Faith and reliance in performance recording for some 30 years is proving to be a solid foundation for flock improvement for one three-way integrated sheep enterprise in Devon. Rebecca Jordan reports.

What a month February turned out to be. Mother nature put on quite the show, kicking off with rain, then the cold with extremely sharp and hard frosts, then came some snow and to finish we had a mix of strong winds and sunshine.