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As the UK heads into a second lockdown I felt very lucky, if a little guilty, to be heading for Iceland.

The struggle that has been 2020 has now reached November and I can only pray that it is not going to be as wet as October, which was the wettest October on record in our part of north east Scotland.

There’s no people like show people. Livestock shows, from the smallest village affair to the grandest of them all, are the heartbeat of so many like-minded people’s lives.

Significant differences have been identified in the resistance of leading commercial oilseed rape varieties to cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) feeding.

Olivia Holt, 25, from Thorton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, works on two dairy farms as well as at home on her father’s suckler beef farm.

From dairying to rare breed preservation and latterly a bed and breakfast renovation project, the Mannering family has embraced their move to the Alkham Valley over the last three years. Jack Watkins reports.

The food standards debate has shown this Government must be closely watched if we are to protect our farming industry, says Leicestershire arable and beef farmer Joe Stanley.