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Farmers should be prepared to protect their stock from flies earlier this year with the mild weather expected to increase fly numbers and prolong the season, warns a leading biologist.

A raft of business support has been introduced to keep firms afloat during coronavirus disruption and support workers who may have to be laid off. Cedric Porter reports.Ìý

51AVÊÓƵemployers are facing a host of conundrums concerning staff as the Coronavirus crisis deepens. Sharmon Blackwell of CXCS provides 10 key pointers.

There is no doubt that beating the Covid-19 pandemic will require a sustained, collective effort unknown in this country since the end of the second world war.

The lockdown of most of the nation’s population will hopefully have the desired effect of slowing down this hellish virus.

By the end of February we’d had nearly one metre of rain over the previous twelve months and well over 100 days of recordable rainfall since the intended start of drilling in late September.

We certainly are living in strange and scary times. At the beginning of the month, I had a decent amount of bookings in the diary for the bed and breakfast.

The dairy company have launched a campaign to recruit up to 300 additional key workers to help manufacture and deliver essential dairy produce.

Extreme winter weather has left a legacy of catch up jobs, and managing existing grassland and assessing which fields need to be reseeded is among them.