Farm fires left the industry with a £49.1 million bill in 2019 a five year high.

A major fundraising effort has been launched in a bid to plug a £1 million black hole in Young Farmers’ Clubs’ coffers.

Horticulture growers will be given the chance to vote on the future of the AHDB levy after a lengthy campaign.

The LAMMA Show, which was due to take place on January 12-13, 2021 at Birmingham’s NEC, will now take place on May 25-26, 2021.

There is no doubt 2020 will be remembered as a year of extremes. And not least because of the weather; flooded one minute, drought the next. 

Farmers and their families are increasingly seeking a safe financial future for themselves, their parents and children in these uncertain times. Sean Aldom, regional manager and head of business at wealth management expert St James’s Place, gives his advice.

Countryfile presenter Adam Henson said he recognised some in the farming community did not think the BBC’s flagship Sunday evening show was ‘agricultural enough’, but that he tried to make farming accessible to all.

A leaked Government document shows a badger cull could go ahead in Derbyshire this autumn.

Cattle have helped boost numbers of the globally endangered large blue butterfly.