Farm Life

What should farmers look out for when planning or improving what their diversification project has to offer?

Farmer speaks out following escalation in dog attacks

Dan Hawes produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, Kent. The arable side of the business includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

The couple have secured a 15-year National Trust tenancy on a 248-hectare hill farm Eryri, Snowdonia

Sam and Samantha Edwards, winners of the 2024 New Entrant: Against the Odds Award, turned a modest hobby into a flourishing livestock enterprise

Farmers say poor connectivity threatens to stifle productivity and diversification

Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Livermore, said while he understood the ‘strength of feeling', he did 'not necessarily accept' the survey's conclusions

British Farming Awards Agricultural Student of the Year 2024, Holly Bonner, proves alternative pathways into agriculture can lead to great success

Chief reporter Rachael Brown questions what is being done to protect the agricultural tenanted sector to ensure it thrives, for both tenants and landlords going forward

Knight Frank agent said while it was not surprising many estates had not communicated their IHT plans to tenants, communication was important– even if it is to explain that an estate is reviewing matters