Farm Life

Farmers First is a major player in the UK lamb market, but a payment issue in recent months and questions from former board members have led the company’s board to speak out. Alex Black met key players at the co-operative.

Beef and Lamb New Zealand has called on the Government to urgently commit to road repairs in the isolated farming communities of Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti following Cyclone Gabrielle on New Zealand’s North Island.

DEFRA, Arla and Danone are just a few of the industry names that are backing Food Waste Action Week, which runs until March 12.

With a wide difference in incomes between different agricultural sectors this season, Cedric Porter reports on the latest Farm Business Income figures.

Common grazings have been a feature of the crofting areas of Scotland for centuries and cover still over 500,000 hectares of the highlands and islands.

Snow has caused disruption to farms across the country this week as the UK faced an arctic blast.

Whatever you think about HS2 — the cost of it; if the country even really needs it — the way operators have handled it so far has fallen woefully short of what should be expected. 

An agriculture student who has wanted to be a farmer all his life has been awarded this year’s prestigious John Innes Foundation Bursary which supports young people starting their farm management and crop production careers.

As the Government decides to ’delay’ the next phase of its controversial HS2 train line, Farmers Guardian speaks exclusively to the farmers for whom the scheme has taken both a mental and financial toll.

Learn more about John Deere’s dedicated apprenticeship training centre, designed to support young people with the skills and training needed when starting out.