Farm Life

Winter has definitely announced its arrival to the Great Orme. With the timely delivery of my eBay purchase, an all-weather combating Swanndri coat, the strong winds and horizontal rain have also arrived.

In a bid to showcase what really happens on farms across Cumbria, Amy Bateman has created a photography-based book with hopes of connecting more people to the industry. Emily Ashworth reports.

Meg Goring, 22, is from Tosside, North Yorkshire. She works as a key accounts manager in external sales for Woodheads Bros, Morrisons.

You really only think of Christmas trees during the winter period, but farmers who grow our main piece of festive decor spend all year growing trees. Here are five farms in England where you can go to the farm to pick your Christmas tree.

Matt Slack is the fifth generation to work at EV Slack and Sons, a family butchers in Wadworth, Doncaster. But the 39-year-old has taken the world of butchery to a whole new audience after taking to Tik Tok just three months ago.

It is that time of year again when the pages of Farmers Guardian are filled with Christmas fatstock sales from around the marts and winter fairs from across the country.

A new law to reduce farm equipment theft could come into force early next year after it received backing from MPs.

Further fears farmland is being put at risk from tree-planting have been raised after commercial forestry values rose by 15 per cent over the past year.

A scene in a Netflix festive film that appears to show a Great Dane let loose among a flock of sheep for comic effect, has been ‘called out’ by the livestock industry.

Only half the amount of free range turkeys will be available this Christmas as a result of the avian flu outbreak, industry experts have confirmed.