Farm Life

Maize is heavily relied upon to maintain the 10,000kg-plus milk yield achieved by the 300 cows milked by brothers Rob and Phil Godwin. Wendy Short reports.

With no immediate farming background, Ernie Richards has worked hard to get where he is. Barry Alston finds out more about his farming journey so far.

With livestock attacks once again in the news, it is important for farmers to know where they stand legally and the measures which they can take to protect their flocks.

An inquest has been opened into the death of a Welsh farm worker who died following an accident in North Wales.

A 23-YEAR-OLD MAN from Northamptonshire has been convicted of theft after he stole a sheep, shot it dead and fed it to a pack of hounds.

Two Devonshire farmers have won a High Court battle to prevent people wild camping on their land in Dartmoor National Park.

With agritourism ventures growing in popularity across Scotland, Ewan Pate spoke to the farmers diversifying at the Scottish Agritourism Conference.

After the dry spring and summer we saw last season it was hard to imagine we would now be paddling around in sodden fields again, but here we are.

In a bid to move away from imported soya, farmers are looking for alternatives and, for some farms, lupins could be an option. Wendy Short reports on a farm where lupins have been grown since 2014.

Support needed to increase farms’ resilience