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Andrew Clements on a busy two months.

Closing the gates at Streamvale Open Farm due to the Covid-19 pandemic was a worrying time for Chris Wilson, but he managed to turn it into an opportunity to start a new business which has just celebrated its first birthday.

Well, 2021 keeps dishing out the surprises to us and as the country eases itself out of lockdown, winter crops refuse to follow suit and have shown little signs of progression this last two weeks. Can we blame them for thinking we are still in the firm grips of winter?

UK farming really does offer so much, and Farming Minister Victoria Prentis highlights this, with food production being the tip of the iceberg.Ìý

Diversifying into free-range egg production allowed Cambridgeshire farmer Simon Bluff to return to the family farm, and despite the challenges faced by the sector has proved a sound business decision. Clemmie Gleeson finds ou

The poster covered the whole rear window of the hatchback. ‘I back the farmers’, it declared. Sat at a traffic light in north London, my heart skipped a beat. Alas, looking closer, they didn’t mean us.

Nia Griffiths, 29, is from Aberdeenshire and works on her partner’s livestock farm situated near Ballater in Royal Deeside.

Skilled staff are vital to farm business success, but training does not have to mean endless expensive courses for employers to fund. Jez Fredenburgh speaks to a training consultancy specialist to find out what options are out there to benefit both parties.

It seems over recent months that good news policy announcements for our sector have been few and far between, so it was welcoming to hear the recent Government decision confirming the roll out of E10 petrol this year.