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The use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest desiccant has become an increasingly contentious subject both inside and outside farming. We asked two industry figures to put the case for and against a potential ban

The first application window for the Sustainable Farming Incentive opens for farmers in England at the end of the month

With renewed interest in the health risks asocciated with glyphosate, Ash Ellwood ponders what is fact and what are merely 'claims'

As part of an exclusive 12-month blog for Farmers Guardian, the new cohort of youngsters on the McDonald's Progressive Young Farmer (PYF) programme talk about their hopes for the future and the impact they can make. This month we hear from 20 year-old Abbi Hallett from Yorkshire

This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Angela Calvert, head of livestock at Farmers Guardian reflects on the changing fortunes of different parts of the beef industry

Nat Watkins, 22, is from Gloucestershire and is currently a student at Hartpury University

FG head of machinery and farm technology Toby Whatley reflects on his adventures with an autonomous domestic lawnmower

Livestock specialist Katie Fallon, reflects on the role of auction marts and a bright future for auctioneering

Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses