Farm Life

Children from five primary schools in Sussex and Surrey have taken part in a new local scheme designed to encourage greater understanding of farming.

The application window for the Government’s Lump Sum Exit Scheme has now opened to help farmers exit the sector in a ‘managed’ way.

Farmers producing electricity have been urged to apply for funding to meet new regulations coming in on September 1.

Farmers who fail to sign-up to government stewardship schemes could be missing out on more than £7,000 a year, a charity has warned.

The British public was more likely to trust farmers, and the rest of the food supply chain, than their European counterparts

Head of news Abi Kay writes about how the Tories are losing their grip on their rural heartlands.

Rosie Bennett, 27, is from Honiton, Devon. She is a dairy and poultry farmer’s daughter and works as a manager at an agricultural specialist accountants Evolution ABS Limited.

A Kent farmer has been fined £4,992 after a worker became entangled in the contra-rotating rollers of a potato harvester and suffered multiple injuries. 

Farmers have welcomed the news that charity tractor runs can use red-diesel in their fundraising activities. 

A criminal who bought thousands of pounds of farm machinery at auction but failed to pay has been jailed for three years and 11 months.