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Abigail Woodhouse, 20, is from Ravenglass, Cumbria, and works full-time on her family’s dairy farm with her parents and older brother.

Wresting a living from a way of farming that is as old as the hills sees traditional shepherding combined with more modern thinking and, as one mother and daughter team told Gaina Morgan, it is about finding the balance.

Worries over the supply of milk prompted a group of Sark residents to fundraise for a community dairy which will be run by Suffolk dairy farmers Jason and Katharine Salisbury. Clemmie Gleeson finds out more.

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only disrupted supply chains, but it has also impacted on the industry’s workforce and its training needs. Hannah Binns reports on what has changed and the positive framework it has created going forwards.

International sheep shearers have been granted a special concession to be able to enter the UK this year.

A new project examining he effectiveness of a community-led approach to sheep scab control in three hotspot areas in England has secured vital funding.

New Holstein sire choices, UK-bred bulls and the continuity of a long-term leader are all features of the young genomic sire ranking, published this week by AHDB Dairy.

It is great to see our oystercatchers, lapwings and curlews have all returned in the past few weeks as the season gradually changes from winter to spring, and hopefully the next to return will be the cuckoo and the swallows.

I have always been in admiration of progressive farmers and their rotational grazing, use of technology and, of course, the latest improvements of weatherproof clothing from New Zealand.

Zanna Dennis on technology at marts.