Farm Life

Hannah Senior is the creator of the Innovating AgTech and Plant Breeding Stories podcasts, available on all podcast platforms. She is a passionate advocate for Agri-Tech entrepreneurship. Her own company, PBS International Ltd, works with plant breeders

At the beginning of January my parents went on a well-deserved holiday to Egypt.

Our farm road is the absolute bane of my life and has been ever since I started to drive.

NFU president Minette Batters was entirely right when she told delegates on the first morning of her union’s conference that Government’s seemingly blase attitude towards food production needed exposing for what it was, naive.

With the interpretation that livestock production is destroying the planet, has the role which ruminants play within society been forgotten?

A funding package of more than £168m to boost farming productivity has been unveiled by the Government.

NFU president Minette Batters issued a strongly worded message to policymakers warning them that the ‘clock is ticking’ for Government to get behind British farmers and growers.

Farm households in Northern Ireland are now eligible for a £600 support payment to help counter rising energy costs.

Lowlands farm, in southwest Birmingham, is home to Beth Withers and her husband, Tom. Here, she talks about bringing up her growing family at Lowlands, a beef and sheep farm, and the balance between motherhood and farming.

There has been bad news this month - and I’m still coming to terms with it - Ken Bruce’s announcement that he is leaving BBC Radio 2. Who saw that coming?