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The poster covered the whole rear window of the hatchback. ‘I back the farmers’, it declared. Sat at a traffic light in north London, my heart skipped a beat. Alas, looking closer, they didn’t mean us.

For some farmers, they are dipping their toes into a new, exciting era for UK agriculture.

With lambing almost finished, we are down to just eight to lamb and it is time to reflect on how it all went.

What a great time to be a new entrant.

It must seem like In Your Field writers are obsessed by the weather as we always start off with a remark about it. Well, I’m afraid this month I’m following the same pattern.

As I sit and write this, the children have returned to school.

You could be forgiven for thinking it was March. Cooler temperatures have somewhat hampered grass growth of late.

We have had our first Covid-19 vaccination, so there is light at the end of the tunnel and the Easter sunshine helped.

It is great to see our oystercatchers, lapwings and curlews have all returned in the past few weeks as the season gradually changes from winter to spring, and hopefully the next to return will be the cuckoo and the swallows.

I have always been in admiration of progressive farmers and their rotational grazing, use of technology and, of course, the latest improvements of weatherproof clothing from New Zealand.