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Unfortunately, due to the current situation, we had to cancel all our on-farm courses this year but, as the saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade or even better, make cider.

October 2020 Dairy Farming edition

This year we have seen our farms go from being deluged by rain to bone dry in a matter of months.

Alastair Sneddon on work through Covid-19.

With 2021 set to usher in a new era of change to trading arrangements, farm support and crop protection regulation, how will Brexit affect the cereals sector?

Oilseed rape growers and agronomists can now calculate the optimum timing to target cabbage stem flea beetle larvae hatch, with the chance to limit stem infestation.

The recent dry weather has been a godsend. Combines have been flat out here in the North West over the last two weeks. Grass silage harvesting has been equally as busy and we noticed the drills are coming out.

Harriet Bartlett is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge and a recently appointed NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador. She is based in Epping, Essex.

Harvest finished on September 9 which is not too late but with its stop start nature and slow pace we were all pleased to finally finish.

Writing this in mid-September after another harvest is complete, I, like many growers, find myself reflecting on the growing year just passed.