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On April 27, the spring show and sale of pedigree Hereford cattle mark 100 years of this fixture at Hereford market. Laura Bowyer looks back at a century of this iconic place.

A few drier interludes in late January and early February allowed us to get a bit more wheat drilled into our lighter land, along with much needed fertilisation and spraying. If we are lucky, we may end up with 40% of our planned winter wheat acreage.

At a time when agriculture is already struggling to attract the workforce it needs to produce food for the nation and markets further afield, the Government’s new proposals to cut migrant labour have the potential to be extremely damaging, writes Olivia Midgley.

Cerys Fairclough, 16, lives on a family sheep farm near Newbridge on Wye, Wales, where she is successfully developing her own flock of Bluefaced Leicester ewes. She is also one of 12 young people to be selected for Farming Connect Agri-Academy.

New Farming Minister Victoria Prentis writes exclusively for Farmers Guardian on why she’s so excited to work at Defra during such a key time of change for UK agriculture.

Removing direct payments before properly testing the new public goods system is reckless and will put hill farmers out of business, says Tim Farron, Westmorland and Lonsdale MP and Lib Dem agriculture spokesman.

Having George Eustice at the cabinet table during such a pivotal time for agriculture will benefit farmers across the whole of the UK, says Andrew RT Davies, Welsh Conservative Shadow Rural Affairs Minister.

Brussels provided more protection for UK farmers in a world of bullying super-powers than Conservative MPs realised, says Labour’s Shadow Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner.

Maximising profits from Anaerobic Digestion plants by optimising feedstocks will ensure projects can be ‘self-sustainable’ in the future as renewable energy subsidies fall away.