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Margins being squeezed due to increasing costs of production, coupled with sharply eroding support payments, means sheep farmers need to do everything possible to optimise efficiency and flock performance.

An organic dairy farm situated on a remote stretch of the North Yorkshire coast is quietly making waves with its forward-thinking attitudes. Sarah Todd reports.

February and March are typically my least favourite months of the year, with winter dragging on and any developments in the heavily pregnant ewes generally being one problem or another.

This month’s #FarmingCAN special feature explores how creating a positive rhetoric with the public is becoming increasingly important for agriculture.

Earlier this month, members of the House of Lords voted through a legislative change which could change farming in this country forever.

Good silage will be key to making the most of good milk prices in the face of high fertiliser and feed costs.

Alastair Brown on the unprecedented times.

This month’s #FarmingCAN special feature explores how creating a positive rhetoric with the public is becoming increasingly important for agriculture.

Bizza Walters, 24, is from a mixed family farm in Studley, Warwickshire. After studying at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, she works around the UK and abroad as a shepherdess, and is also an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador.

Many calves benefit from treatment with anti-inflammatory medicines (NSAIDs) before procedures such as disbudding/dehorning now we better understand the longer-term impact of such procedures on calves.