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September 2020 Dairy Farming edition

This year we have all become living history, an integral part of events which will be analysed for many years to come.

If you are looking for a great book which captures farming life in Scotland have a look at Eilidh MacPherson’s ‘300 Farmers of Scotland’.

Lucy Hinch, 20, from Rutland, comes from an arable farm along with 216,000 free range layers. She is currently studying an agricultural degree at Harper Adams University.

Just a few days ago ‘Desert Dorset’ was a dust bowl. The milking herd has been on a full silage diet as there was just no grass and no growth as it has hardly rained for more than a month.

Beef industry terminology, grading and branding vary across the globe. In the second part of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, Farmers Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the differences between the UK and US.

Securing planning permission for new agricultural tied dwellings has eased succession planning for three generations of farmers. Farmers Guardian reports.

So it is now official, the UK is in recession as a result of two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

All Government departments must be aware that introducing friction at the UK-EU border will have a major effect on pig production, processing and herd health, says Ed Barker, senior policy advisor at the National Pig Association.

The Government’s Trade Bill has left MPs with less power to scrutinise trade deals and protect farmers than UK MEPs had in the EU, says Tim Farron, agriculture spokesman for the Liberal Democrats.