Farm Life

Farmers’ profit margins will be harder hit next year as businesses find it difficult to avoid cost increases, Richard King, partner and head of business research at The Andersons Centre, has warned.

Every time I come to write my article, there seems to be more and more upheaval in the world.

Amie Witter-Smith, 28, is from a beef and arable farm in Goxhill, North Lincolnshire. Earlier in the year, she started selling beef boxes direct from the farm and is keen for people to learn where their meat comes from and the importance of supporting their local farmer.

For many farmers, the end of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) is a headache they have yet to find a workable treatment for.

Improving soils and grassland is the focus for Rob Visser, who makes artisan cheeses from the milk produced by his 130-cow Jersey herd.Chris McCullough reports.

Paul White has recently begun his farming career, with six acres of land in the heart of Lancashire running Lonk sheep and turkeys. Here, he tell Farmers Guardian the ups and downs of the journey so far.

Scottish farmers waiting for advance payment of their 2022 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) last week were disappointed to find that the promised funds had failed to reach their bank accounts.

A 55-year-old farmer from Kinross has been killed in an incident involving at all-terrain vehicle (ATV).