Farm Life

Farming support schemes are set to be disrupted this month after more than 400 staff at the Rural Payments Agency voted to strike.

More than 25 pregnant sheep have been killed in Kent in what local officers are calling ‘the worst livestock attack’ the force has ever seen.

Farmers are being urged to help farmland birds through the ‘hungry gap’ now winter is well underway.

The Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference met in person for the first time in two years this week. Abi Kay and Jane Thynne explore what was on offer for attendees.

The Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference met in person for the first time in two years this week. Abi Kay and Jane Thynne explore what was on offer for attendees.

Push to lift voices of BPOC in the agriculture industry

Andrew Maddever and his family farm 2,000ha of heavy clay arable land through a mix of owned, tenanted and contract farming arrangements, near Bury St Edmunds.

Farmers hoping for a quiet 2022 following several years upheaval due to Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic were left disappointed. Abi Kay takes a look back over the past 12 months.

Through hard work, positivity, and a can-do attitude, new entrants Stuart and Chloe Graham, made their dream a reality when they secured a ten-year tenancy on one of Scotland’s Crown Estate farms.