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Combine harvesters continue to increase in capacity and sheer bulk, but for smaller or mixed farms, there are still plenty of options, extending to used or hired machines. Jane Carley reports.

For farmers it’s a novelty to have your hometown in the news. Even rarer to see bits of your farm in the papers.

A rewilding charity is to challenge the Scottish Government’s nature agency NatureScot in court over what it sees as a failure to make the killing of beavers a genuine last resort.

AHDB has today formally announced a ballot on the continuation of the statutory potato levy will go ahead in the New Year.

Eilidh Duncan, 22, was brought up on her family farm in Dullatur and recently moved to the hills of Fintry, Stirlingshire, to live with her farming partner. She works as a full time livestock procurement officer covering North and Central Scotland for Farm Stock (Scotland).

A partnership depicting the fusion of a historic landscape, an entrepreneurial mindset and the need to develop a new farming business model is underway in the Vale of Glamorgan. Gaina Morgan reports.

In the 80s, Thatcherism tore the heart out of British manufacturing, with long-term social consequences. We cannot let the same thing happen now to English farming, says Labour Shadow Defra Minister Daniel Zeichner.

With BPS on the way out, and Defra not yet ready to offer support which fills the gap, farmers must take steps now to survive the Brexit transition, says Dr Julia Aglionby, executive director at the FCL and chairwoman of the Uplands Alliance.

With direct payments on their way out, farmers should consider rewilding on marginal land to boost the income they make from food production, says Dr Stephanie Wray, director of RSK Wilding.

The PM must negotiate a three to six-month adjustment period as part of any EU trade deal, so farmers have time to prepare for the new relationship, says Mike Rumbles, North East Scotland MSP.