Farm Life

Succession is a difficult question to broach in any farming family but it is vital to get the ball rolling. Alex Black takes a look at what young farmers need to consider when starting the conversation

A farmer has received almost £140,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund for his charity aiming to break the stigma surrounding isolation, loneliness and poor mental wellbeing prevalent within rural communities.

A growing black market for stolen diesel and heating oil due to rising fuel prices has renewed calls for farmers to be vigilant against ‘opportunist’ thieves this Christmas. 

It is the season of school nativity plays – Covid-19 permitting – and I listen to the strains of Away In A Manger sung by some angelic voices and some rather discordant reedy voices.

Following a boom in staycations in 2020 and 2021, campsite owners and the industry are calling on the Government to extend temporary campsite dates again in 2022

Emily Bennison, 23, lives on her family’s mixed livestock and arable farm in Swallow, Lincolnshire. She currently works for H&M Haylage and manages her family’s small herd of suckler cows.

As I write this a few days before Christmas, my eldest son buzzes round the house in a form of festive hysteria.

Keeping in line with the weather throughout 2021, November was incredibly kind to us and allowed us to get finished with lifting, cultivating and drilling in good time.

Convoys of tractors decked in fairy lights and tinsel drew in excited crowds up and down the country as farmers pulled together to raise thousands of pounds for charity while connecting urban and rural communities.

NFU Scotland has decided to challenge findings published in Lancet, the influential medical journal.