Farm Life

Contracting price rises are ‘inevitable’ this spring as inflation continues to impact costs for contractors.

Increasingly tighter supplies are driving pig prices to new record highs, but European price progression has slowed.

Farmers are being offered £44 million to help tackle pollution, as part of the Government’s new £1.6 billion Plan for Water.

MPs are set to debate controversial plans to significantly limit grazing on Dartmoor following claims Natural England is attempting to rewild the iconic landscape “by the backdoor”.

TV and radio presenter Rylan Clark has landed a role on rural drama The Archers as part of the BBC’s coverage of this year’s Eurovision coverage.

A blast of much-needed sunshine has brought with it a sense of optimism and welcome relief to those in the midst of lambing.

Vegetable growers can expect a ‘seamless transfer’ when AHDB Horticulture’s crop protection service is taken over by its grower-owned replacement.

Dairy farmers will have to weather prices falling further throughout spring before any hope of stabilisation later in the year.

From their humble base in Texas, Pete and Missy Bonds run cattle across 13 states of America as part of a truly vast ranching business. Ben Briggs reports from the Lone Star State.

Rhea Auton, 22, is studying to become a land agent in Northumberland.