Farm Life

An auction mart has been prosecuted and fined £16,000 after a drover sustained a serious laceration to his leg following an incident with a horned bull.

As we approach the Christmas period at a fairly rapid pace the order book for the butchery is looking very healthy.

We are now well into winter and have settled into a nice routine, with Isobel and I taking turns on feeding and checking cows.

Stephen Allen, 26, is from Rothes, Moray and works as a farm manager for Delfur Farms, a mixed beef and arable farm situated on the banks of the river Spey. The main focus of the farm is a herd of 150-head of pedigree Simmental cows along with 162 hectares (400 acres) of spring barley, all of which is for malting.

That the country needs coherent solutions to the structural problems it faces around labour and creaking supply chains is nothing new. Whether it has a Government fit enough to deliver such solutions is another matter altogether.

A farming partnership has been fined £53,000 after a farm worker was fatally injured in an incident involving a telehandler within the pig barn.

A farmer has issued a warning to anyone about to sign an access agreement.

Drivers of UTVs should always use the vehicle’s seatbelts and not assume the roll-cage will prevent serious injury or death, safety chiefs have warned.

Last week I visited farmers in Northumberland to see for myself the devastation caused by Storm Arwen on farms across the North.

I had to go over to a nearby market town, running a couple of errands. It happens to also be the town I grew up in.