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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Ian Brownlie’s Murdo won Yetholm, Davie Wallace’s Taz Ellemford and Ian McMillan’s Cat Colmonell; Chase won Northumberland.

Girvan Mains’ Young family farms 3000 acres, finishes 5,000 cattle a year and powers the farm with an anaerobic digester as award finalists.

Drew Watson & Co is a Contractor of the Year finalist after growing from one tractor into a major agricultural contracting business.