Incredibly strong wind speeds have been recorded periodically across the US Plains and Canada’s Prairies this spring.

For obvious reasons, the most physically demanding jobs — roofers, pile drivers, fishermen, lumberjacks, take your pick of many others — are primarily filled by people no older than 40. But farming, a mixture of hard work and long hours, even as technology automates some tasks, is a dramatic outlier.

Hybrid rye could fit in well to tillage farmers’ systems and encourage more fodder production agreements between tillage and livestock farmers.

Like it or not, genetic modification is going to be an important tool to feed the planet’s growing population.

About 120 km north of Cape Town and less than 2° north of the southern tip of Africa lies a quarry that, to the untrained eye, has nothing interesting to offer.

UK meat suppliers will start losing EU orders from September, unless the government clarifies what export and tariff arrangements will be in place after the end of the Brexit transition period, the British Meat Processors Association has warned.