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During my early-teen growth spurt I had skinny, matchstick legs and gigantic size-12 feet which I could barely control. This made me hopeless at football – this was in the1980s and Peter Crouch had not surfaced yet.

Reduced grass silage yields in the first half of the year are set to make producing good maize silage even more important this season. So how do you achieve the best maize preservation?

Red meat, potato and dairy sales have received a boost from the reopening of takeaways as Brits return to their pre-shutdown eating habits

Malting barley prices were expected to remain under pressure this season, with AHDB figures revealing a 29 per cent drop in demand during June.

The first harvest results for AHDB Recommended List (RL) winter wheat trials have been published. Results include three treated sites, two from Lincolnshire and one from Hampshire.

Progress in wheat harvesting has been rapid in the last week or so, amid high temperatures, however, yields are very variable depending on soil type.

Scientists at the James Hutton Institute are working to understand the interactions between pathogen pectobacterium atrosepticum and an array of soil-microbe-crop interactions in the development of blackleg.

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.

Potatoes in areas that have seen hot, dry weather recently are senescing more quickly than normal, particularly in unirrigated crops.

The potato giant has launched its McCain Potato Farmer Pledge as it looks to make its farmers’ businesses sustainable for the future