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There are only a few months left until the Mid-Tier Countryside Stewardship application window closes on 31 July 2020.Ìý Countryside Stewardship agreements will continue to be offered in 2022 and 2023, until the new Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) is introduced in 2024.

My husband, Rob and I were raised on our family farms’ so we always knew farming would feature heavily in our futures.Some 6 years ago we built our own home on my parents farm in Inglewhite, here my Dad, Mum, brother and Rob work tirelessly on our 600-acre farm milking a dairy herd of 450 Holsteins.

Designed to eliminate strips of uncut grass when turning, Claas and fellow German firm Sauter have jointly developed a swivelling front linkage system for use with front mounted mowers.

Undersowing maize with grass is gaining popularity among farmers wanting to avoid bare overwintered stubbles

As fertiliser can vary in shape and density, it is important a few simple steps are taken to get your spreader calibrated accurately. We find out more with some expert top tips.

Jim Beary is a mixed upland livestock farmer in the Peak District and a member of the Future Farmers of Yorkshire at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.

Thomas Carrick is part of a family-run upland beef and sheep farm in the North Pennines, near Alston. With pure-bred Swaledales to produce Mule lambs, they also run Salers cross cattle with Aberdeen-Angus calves which they finish at home.

Harrison Anton, 23, is a farm and environment assistant with CLM, a firm of farm business consultants and land agents working across southern England.

Like nearly every other industry in the country, agriculture is experiencing incredible challenges due to Covid-19, yet Welsh farmers remain in the dark as to what support, if any, they might receive, says Andrew RT Davies, Welsh Shadow Rural Affairs Minister.

The coronavirus outbreak will make it hard to analyse the true economic impact of Brexit on farming, says Eamon Cassells, a beef farmer from County Meath in Ireland.