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The commercial Holstein herd at Roadhead Farm, Quothquan, South Lanarkshire, had progressed to 500 cows by 2003 when Geoff Hewitt decided to start his on-farm mill and mix facility.

Delayed drilling is known to be a major tool in the armoury against black-grass, but frustrated in his search for a machine to perform on wet or heavy land, one landowner has developed his own. Jane Carley reports.

Paul Gentry reviews the year so far.

August 2020 Dairy Farming edition

September 2020 Dairy Farming edition

This year we have all become living history, an integral part of events which will be analysed for many years to come.

If you are looking for a great book which captures farming life in Scotland have a look at Eilidh MacPherson’s ‘300 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø of Scotland’.

Lucy Hinch, 20, from Rutland, comes from an arable farm along with 216,000 free range layers. She is currently studying an agricultural degree at Harper Adams University.

Just a few days ago ‘Desert Dorset’ was a dust bowl. The milking herd has been on a full silage diet as there was just no grass and no growth as it has hardly rained for more than a month.

Beef industry terminology, grading and branding vary across the globe. In the second part of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the differences between the UK and US.