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Wormer resistance is a very real threat to sheep farming. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø must adopt new, sustainable worming practices to prolong the effectiveness of wormers.

A farmer has died in an incident involving a quad bike in Cumbria.

While growers are aware of the drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it can be difficult to know where to start. But NFU has been working to make things easier.

At the end of February, a Government Minister made the warm and friendly remark that Britain does not need its own farming industry.

Retailers’ decisions to stock foreign beef at a time when British prime cuts are in desperate need of a market have angered the farming industry. But what is the effect on farmgate prices?

Chris Newbrook, 26, is a third generation farmer from Glyn Ceirog, North Wales, and farms 210 hectares (520 acres) alongside his parents and grandparents.

It’s May 1 already. How this strange and troubled year is flying by, which is amazing given all the events and shows we had planned to visit are now just a passing thought as the dates get closer on the calendar. Very disappointing.

With wheat’s most critical disease control timing looming, what is the advice for growers in a year with wildly differing drilling dates and crop development, the arrival of new chemistry, and low disease pressure?