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It has been a long, dry summer here in the Scottish Borders and we still have a couple of fields of grass to mow for second cut silage.

Precision Grazing, a farm consultancy group specialising in pasture-based livestock systems, recently held an on-farm open day with discussions focusing on how farmers could create resilient and profitable businesses. Rebecca

Emily Brown, 23, works on her family’s mixed farm in Stagsden, Bedfordshire and was Harper Adams Students’ Union president in 2021-22. She is also a NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador and helps promote diversity and inclusion in the industry.

If children really do make their minds up about which careers they do not want to do by the age of nine, then agriculture needs to be at the forefront of selling its wares to the next generation from a young age.

Back in the mid-1990s, when I worked as a volunteer for the National Commission on Women’s Affairs at Government House in Bangkok, I went through two Prime Ministers in two years. That was expected in a clearly unstable political system.

Every time I come to write my article, there seems to be more and more upheaval in the world.

Amie Witter-Smith, 28, is from a beef and arable farm in Goxhill, North Lincolnshire. Earlier in the year, she started selling beef boxes direct from the farm and is keen for people to learn where their meat comes from and the importance of supporting their local farmer.

For many farmers, the end of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) is a headache they have yet to find a workable treatment for.

Ted Ogden on high quality of autumn stock.