Isa for Cattle Is a Significant Undertaking in Its Own Right

In this episode, it's mainly all about the money.

What does the UK government's latest spring budget statement mean for your farm business? Two experts give us their views.

Rob Hitch from accountants Dodd & Co and Gary Markham from Land Family Business examine the likely impact on the livestock and arable sectors.

How will the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board make up a £4m shortfall after being told it is no longer exempt from VAT rules?

It's the latest in a series of challenges faced by AHDB chief executive Tim Rycroft who also addresses concerns about key employees leaving the levy board.

On the markets, dairy giant Arla  says it wants to recruit more farmers as suppliers as it unveils a five-year plan to secure more value from milk.

We find out how sheep producers are lambing without antibiotics – and look at new sheep movement rules.

And we speak to the agricultural  contractor and farm safety campaigner who rebuilt his life after losing his left arm in a potato harvester accident.

The video with James Bannister, chairman of the National Association of Agricultural Contractors, can be found here.

This episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast is co-hosted by Johann Tasker and Surrey farmer Hugh Broom, with Farmers Weekly senior livestock reporter Michael Priestley.