This week I wrapped tinsel around my keyboard, ate four mince pies and summoned my most festive spirit to deliver an ...
Scottish Environment Link and RSPB Scotland have resigned from two key government farming policy groups, citing “failures in ...
Payment rates for government-funded annual vet visits to farms in England will increase by 16% from 22 January 2026. Funding ...
More than £30,000 was raised for four rural charities when farmers, sponsors and supporters gathered at Ludlow Racecourse in ...
Farmers converged on Westminster on 16 December as MPs debated the Finance Bill, staging a noisy protest to oppose proposed ...
A change is as good as a rest, the saying goes, and getting away from the farm to do something completely different is a ...
A further two suspected cases of bluetongue virus have been identified in County Down, taking the number of suspected ...
NFU Scotland has intensified pressure on the Scottish government to commit to a multi-year, ringfenced increase in ...
Defra has published Baroness Minette Batters’ long-awaited Farm Profitability Review, ending months of uncertainty over when the document would see the ...
UK cereals growers have endured a challenging 12 months, with low farmgate prices, weather constraints and a smaller domestic crop. While pressure remains ...
Joshua Dennis, a 26-year-old arable farmer from Cambridgeshire, made the bold move to take on a county council tenancy at ...
I’m not certain why it happens, but it’s hard not to be curmudgeonly as a man when you hit your mid-40s. One minute you’re a ...