Query: Dear Mary Frances, my family and I moved to the countryside during the whole Covid madness, and we’re loving the rural life. The only hiccup is that our house is right in the middle of farmland ...

The one week extension for slurry-spreading has been largely negated by heavy rainfall for the last two weeks. It is hard to visualise how any farmer on heavy soils will have conditions good enough to ...

Applications of slurry and manure can only resume from this date if ground and weather conditions are suitable to allow the uptake of nutrients from the slurry. For example, avoid spreading on wet or ...