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November saw the highest monthly value of British grocery sales ever, with shoppers spending £10.9 billion. That record is only expected to stand for a month, with sales of £12 billion in December on the cards. Cedric Porter reports.

Next year will see farmers facing a complex mix of challenges, whatever happens with Brexit, farm business consultants Andersons have said. By Jonathan Wheeler

In the week we learned a scotch egg constituted a ‘substantial’ meal and The Path to Sustainable Farming was published by Defra, we were catching up on a list of autumnal jobs on-farm.

With an eye on expanding cow numbers in the next couple of years, the Darke family decided to replace robots with a rotary parlour. Rebecca Jordan visits them to find out how the new system is working.

Combine harvesters continue to increase in capacity and sheer bulk, but for smaller or mixed farms, there are still plenty of options, extending to used or hired machines. Jane Carley reports.

For farmers it’s a novelty to have your hometown in the news. Even rarer to see bits of your farm in the papers.

A rewilding charity is to challenge the Scottish Government’s nature agency NatureScot in court over what it sees as a failure to make the killing of beavers a genuine last resort.

AHDB has today formally announced a ballot on the continuation of the statutory potato levy will go ahead in the New Year.

Eilidh Duncan, 22, was brought up on her family farm in Dullatur and recently moved to the hills of Fintry, Stirlingshire, to live with her farming partner. She works as a full time livestock procurement officer covering North and Central Scotland for 51AVÊÓƵStock (Scotland).

A partnership depicting the fusion of a historic landscape, an entrepreneurial mindset and the need to develop a new farming business model is underway in the Vale of Glamorgan. Gaina Morgan reports.