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Two free virtual ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian events are offering UK farmers the chance to find out more about the opportunities the New Zealand agritech industry has to offer.

With the Roundup now applied to some of the spring barley crops, we are on the short countdown to harvest.

Amy Wilkinson, 24, farms with her dad in Halsall, Lancashire. She rears 550 beef cattle through to finishing and farms 243 hectares (600 acres) of arable land.

Accurate interpretation and a proactive approach to pregnancy diagnosis (PD) results can pay off for suckler producers. Vet Kaz Strycharczyk, of Black Sheep Farm Health, Northumberland, offered a few tips.

The US beef industry has been at the centre of discussion on a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal. In the first of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the structure of the industry from the ranch to the packing plant.

Calf scours and pneumonia among youngstock in the beef suckler herd continues to be a major gripe for UK beef producers. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian reports.

The Defra family responsible for ELMs development is becoming too inward-focused, instead of looking out to farmers who will deliver their ambitions, says Julia Aglionby, executive director for the Foundation for Common Land.

For fruit grower David Butler, streamlining is proving crucial to securing a commercially thriving fruit growing enterprise for years to come. Jack Watkins reports.

The UK Government either does not appreciate, or care, about what Brexit is about to bring for farmers, says Deidre Brock, SNP Westminster spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

This Government’s sugar plans, whether changing the tariff regime or refusing to reconsider the neonics ban for beet, prove no Minister is backing British farming, says Leicestershire arable and beef farmer Joe Stanley.