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With Brexit and the climate change agenda, the agriculture community probably felt the 2020s were going to be challenging.

Making the switch from brassicas to a winter grazing crop of rape, ryegrass and berseem clover has given one Welsh farmer an income boost while reducing soil erosion.

As I sit down to write this we are in the middle of some seriously wet weather.

Rachel and husband Stephen and family farm 66ha (163 acres) mainly tenanted at Baildon, West Yorkshire. They milk 85 pedigree Holstein and Jerseys, selling milk to Meadow Foods. They also have an on farm vending machine. Their son, Ben, works full-time on farm and daughters Felicity and Zoe also work in the agricultural sector. Rachel is a director of the local farmers’ market.

Scientists have discovered the genetics insideÌýlegumes which control the production of an oxygen-carrying molecule, crucial to the plant’s close relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

The farmer at the centre of a bird flu outbreak in Angus, Scotland, has spoken out over the ordeal.

An extra 12,000 tonnes of Australian beef could be heading to the UK as part of the Australia-UK trade deal but the impact could largely be offset by reduced EU imports, according to calculations by AHDB. By Cedric Porter

David Mitchell, 25, is a third generation farmer, farming 200 native suckler cows and 750 ewes outside Wiston, Biggar. A past Biggar YFC chair, he is currently Lanarkshire vice-chair and sits on the National Ag and Rural Affairs Committee.

A project investigating brome on UK arable farms has found all brome species have increased in prevalence and some are becoming less sensitive to certain herbicides.

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