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During my early-teen growth spurt I had skinny, matchstick legs and gigantic size-12 feet which I could barely control. This made me hopeless at football – this was in the1980s and Peter Crouch had not surfaced yet.

A Yorkshire beef unit which finishes 1,600 head a year is using co-products from the food and beverage industry as part of a balanced diet to help achieve growth rates of 1.8-2kg/day.

Reduced grass silage yields in the first half of the year are set to make producing good maize silage even more important this season. So how do you achieve the best maize preservation?

It is just over a week on from the incredible success of #Farm24. Huge congratulations once again to the team at Farmers Guardian for another spectacular event and massive thank you to sponsors Morrisons because without sponsors many dreams would not be realised.

IÌýam pleased to be hiding from the heat and catching up on office work. A week of 30degC heat (and more) and not a drop of rain has parched already severely dry ground and there is not a bite of grass over most of the farm.

Internal parasite infestation is one of the single best indicators of animal health, productivity and performance.

Two free virtual Farmers Guardian events are offering UK farmers the chance to find out more about the opportunities the New Zealand agritech industry has to offer.

With the Roundup now applied to some of the spring barley crops, we are on the short countdown to harvest.

Amy Wilkinson, 24, farms with her dad in Halsall, Lancashire. She rears 550 beef cattle through to finishing and farms 243 hectares (600 acres) of arable land.

Accurate interpretation and a proactive approach to pregnancy diagnosis (PD) results can pay off for suckler producers. Vet Kaz Strycharczyk, of Black Sheep 51AVÊÓƵHealth, Northumberland, offered a few tips.