Shropshire dairy farmer Tim Downes becomes RABDF chair for a three-year term, replacing Robert Craig, as four new trustees join the board on October 7.

Longtown store cattle sale sees £2380 top price for Limousin cross and Charolais cross cattle, while a Charolais heifer takes champion honours at £2300.

Scotland's cattle numbers have risen for the first time since 2021, while the latest agricultural census reveals wider changes across farming.

Meet the McLean family’s 170-cow organic Holstein herd at Mains of Culsh, New Deer, Aberdeenshire, supplying Graham’s after merging into a 300ha farm.

Castle Douglas Blackface sale sees gimmers reach £300 from Fingland, while 1610 draft ewes average £155.38 and 1,161 gimmers £216.93.

Barledziew Holstein herd dispersal at Carlisle reaches 5,800gns, with strong UK demand and Harrison & Hetherington selling top pedigree dairy cattle.

Bluefaced Leicester ram lamb tops J36 Crooklands sale at £6500 for Bob Lawrence’s Bob-On flock, bought by Messrs Armstrong, Ainstable.

Andrew Hastie explains how Alderston Mains uses a Biolectric on-farm anaerobic digestion system to turn dairy slurry into renewable electricity and heat.

Farewell Farms near St Margaret’s Hope, Orkney, runs beef cattle and the UK’s most northerly high-grade seed potato unit, supplying fresh local produce across Orkney.

Meet the Malcolm family at Cromlix Farm, using extensive suckler cattle farming, native breeds and outdoor calving while supplying calves to Stirling Market.

Renfrewshire farmers Willie and Mairi Harper are shortlisted for a farming award after building a 1,200-acre mixed beef, sheep and arable enterprise.

Glenrath Farms’ Galloway cattle win Scotland and Northern England Herd of the Year title, with Skelfhill reserve and Rogan third after judging 17 herds.