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You always know that autumn is drawing near as the movement of livestock in and out of our West Wales valley increases.

Summer is over and the kids are back to school. All the rain has made it another fairly growy month, which has this corner of the countryside looking nice and green with plenty of grass in front of both fattening lambs and Mule gimmers.

Flavian Obiero, 29, is a pig unit manager at Plumpton College in East Sussex.

Few farmers get to start from a blank page, but upon arrival at Sharcott 51AVÊÓƵon Exmoor, that is exactly where Simon and Sarah Keily first found themselves. Rachel Lovell reports.

Trends in farming come and go, but at the very heart of livestock breeding is a group of enthusiasts who support their breed through thick and thin. Sarah Todd reports.

In the final part of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, Farmers Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the impact of Covid-19 in the US and the UK.

In the tough times ahead, I hope farmers will see there is more to gain from working together than from being king of your own sandcastle, says arable farmer and NFU Sugar Board member Tom Clarke.

Lots of things have gone wrong in the Brexit talks with the EU, but the nation needs farmers to pull through, no matter what comes next, says Oliver Dowding, apple juice producer and agricultural spokesman for the Green Party in the south west.