A farmer who allegedly flipped a car over that had wrongly parked in front of a farm gate on private land is facing charges for criminal damage and dangerous driving. 

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic seeing a 20.3 per cent fall in rural crime costs totalling £43.3 million in 2020, the lowest annual level in five years, thieves returned to UK farmyards with new tactics and targets.

With 1.2 billion tonnes of food wasted globally on farms, including 149 million tonnes for Europe, an ambitious food waste reduction targets from food to fork is needed to tackle the issue, a new report by WWF has urged. 

UK pork producers have been reminded of the looming threat African swine fever (ASF) poses following the disease’s ‘inexorable spread ever westwards’.

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade.

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade.

Two quad bikes were stolen by ’opportunist’ thieves from exhibitors’ stands at the Great Yorkshire Show.

Farmers have been urged to make public safety part of their health and safety policy following an increase in on-farm fatalities this year.

An entomologist who was inspired by a Harper Adams study in his teens during a sixth-form summer project has returned to the institution as a postgraduate researcher. 

The National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs (NFYFC) has announced its shortlist for its new Farm Safety Award 2021.