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Here are my top ten highlights from the 2019 NFU Conference at the ICC in Birmingham. The usual caveats about typos, grammar and spelling apply.

As the Countryside Stewardship application window opens, Jim Egan takes a closer look at some of the changes to the process that have been put in place.

While there’s lots of subtle variation in woodcock plumage, it is very rare to see white or leucistic birds. Chris Heward describes an encounter with an unusual ‘blonde’ woodcock caught last week.

With temperatures warming and the days getting longer, breeding Lapwing will shortly be back in the Avon Valley. We have been a busy team this winter, establishing 2 new breeding wader hotspot sites and monitoring wintering waterfowl and waders. So, before we get into the 2019 season, we thought it would make sense to reflect on 2018.

NFU President Minette Batters and GWCT’s long-serving biodiversity advisor Pete Thompson braved StormErik to go bird-spotting on the first day of the 2019 Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC).