Farm Business

Video footage showing a tractor swerving on an A-road before mounting an oncoming car has sparked warnings about the consequences of dangerous driving.

Rural thieves are targeting farm pick-up trucks, with more than twice as many vehicles stolen each month compared to last year, rural insurer NFU Mutual has warned. 

A dairy farm has been fined £52,650 after pleading guilty to several offences against animal health and welfare, animal by-products and feed legislation.

The processor also said it was in talks with ‘frustrated’ aligned contract farmer groups as it continues its recruitment drive

Residents fighting plans to build a 40-hectare industrial plant on a family farm in South Wales say the development will have a devastating impact not only on the local community and landscape, but also on the area’s tourism.

But the cooperative said the price for organic milk will remain unchanged as demand comes under pressure. 

A group of farmers, including Jeremy Clarkson and Gareth Wyn Jones, have warned the Government must slash the mountains of regulations which seek to micromanage every acre by half before the next General Election.

A 58-year-old farmer has died after being attacked by a bull during a Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) test.

People living in rural areas are under-represented compared to their urban counterparts, according to a leading Labour activist.

Defra has pledged to keep the new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme in place, despite a commitment from the new ministerial team to a rapid review of farm support.