Blogs

In Your Field: Amy Wilkinson - 'We use blow torches for thawing pipes, not cooking creme brulees'

Farm Life

In Your Field: Amy Wilkinson - 'We use blow torches for thawing pipes, not cooking creme brulees'

Most weeks on the farm I truly believe there is no better job in the world.

clock 23 January 2023 • 2 min read
Good Evans: 'Whatever we have it will be a further sign of climate change'

Livestock

Good Evans: 'Whatever we have it will be a further sign of climate change'

This month, Roger Evans shares his thoughts on climate change and tells us why a dose of reality and common sense is helpful when dealing with the issues of the day.

clock 21 January 2023 • 4 min read
In Your Field: Alice Dyer and Adam Lockwood - 'What new entrants really need is access to land and capital'

Farm Life

In Your Field: Alice Dyer and Adam Lockwood - 'What new entrants really need is access to land and capital'

After the dry spring and summer we saw last season it was hard to imagine we would now be paddling around in sodden fields again, but here we are.

clock 17 January 2023 • 2 min read
In Your Field: Mike Harris - 'The majority of the farm resembles a grassy swamp'

Livestock

In Your Field: Mike Harris - 'The majority of the farm resembles a grassy swamp'

clock 15 January 2023 • 3 min read
Good Evans: 'Something tells me ruminants will be eating very different diets in a few years' time'

Dairy

Good Evans: 'Something tells me ruminants will be eating very different diets in a few years' time'

This month, Roger Evans ponders the decline in veganism, discusses the ploughing of steep land and reminisces about headage payments and scams.

clock 04 January 2023 • 4 min read
In Your Field: Rachel Coates - 'CrossFit has helped me get back to being a pocket rocket'

Blogs

In Your Field: Rachel Coates - 'CrossFit has helped me get back to being a pocket rocket'

Because we had not had weather as cold as we had in the middle of the month for a while, it took a bit of adjusting to.

clock 03 January 2023 • 2 min read
In Your Field: James Robinson - 'We now have a cheese named after our farm beck'

Blogs

In Your Field: James Robinson - 'We now have a cheese named after our farm beck'

I am writing this with my feet up by a roaring fire, after an entire day spent thawing water pipes and troughs for the cows.

clock 02 January 2023 • 3 min read
In Your Field: Kate Rowell - 'Only time will tell if that was the right decision'

Blogs

In Your Field: Kate Rowell - 'Only time will tell if that was the right decision'

After an exceptionally mild autumn, winter is definitely here as we discovered first hand when we drove through horizontal sleet on the way up our hill to collect a snow-covered quad bike left there at a gathering a few days earlier.

clock 20 December 2022 • 3 min read
In Your Field: Amy Wilkinson - 'All that is left to do is wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy, hopefully less stressful, New Year'

Blogs

In Your Field: Amy Wilkinson - 'All that is left to do is wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy, hopefully less stressful, New Year'

And just like that December has come around yet again, somehow even faster than last year and that means one thing and one thing only: the yard is like a nonstop, revolving door of people known for their sixth sense of arriving when a kettle has just been

clock 19 December 2022 • 2 min read
In your field: James and Isobel Wright - 'Our newborn son means we aren't missing the cows too much'

Farm Life

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - 'Our newborn son means we aren't missing the cows too much'

I have joined the NFU, which is not a phrase I ever thought I’d say.

clock 06 December 2022 • 2 min read