Now in its 1oth year, Whitbourne Annual hedging competition will take place on Saturday, March 3 at the same venue as last year – Churchfield Orchard, Whitbourne, Worcestershire.

Pontesbury Tractors Limited, the new agricultural machinery dealership for Shropshire and Mid Wales holds its first open day on Friday, February 24 from noon until 8pm at the new depot at Unit 3 & 4, Malehurst, Minsterley near Shrewsbury.

Two neighbouring young farmers in Powys are taking advantage of a new initiative to help boost profits from their sheep flocks.

Livestock farmers are being urged to be vigilant following confirmation by the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) of an outbreak of the Schmallenberg Virus (SBV) in the UK for the first time.

I was pleased to see that on December 1 Her Majesty’s Government came up trumps and our Single Payment was credited to my bank account along with the upland hill farming organic allowance.

The Court of Appeal has rejected the Government’s appeal against a High Court decision that it unlawfully reduced Solar PV Feed-in-Tariffs (FITs).

Controversial plans for a 1,000-cow ‘super dairy’ on the outskirts of Welshpool will be decided by the Welsh government.

The emergence of snowdrops denotes the closing curtain on the sporting shoot season. I hope that those who have a day or two in hand find the finale to be just that.

Well, we’ve moved from the hectic festive season with oven-ready geese, turkey, sausages, lamb and beef joints on the market, to the calm after the storm that is January and the New Year.