Farm Life

I start with a falswhood. Did you know that the carbon footprint of the Coca-Cola company is greater than that of the entire UK livestock industry? No?

High Peak MP Robert Largan, Conservative, put forward a Bill in Parliament last week that would ban the use of disposable barbecues on open moorland and give councils the power to prohibit their sale.

With the clocks changing, the dry weather came to an abrupt end on the last day of October. What we were not prepared for, however, was the absolute deluge of rainfall which fell out of the sky on that morning.

October started and ended dry and I cannot remember a kinder autumn than the one we are currently having. I am sure at some point the weather will turn for the worst and test us, but for now long may it continue.

Farmers and their communities have been encouraged to recognise the people in their lives that help support them during good and difficult times as part of a new campaign by The Farming Community Network (FCN). 

When it comes to trade, the Kiwis know their onions. That much is clear from the news that the New Zealand Government is quickly moving to capitalise on its trade deal with the UK, which will remove all tariffs on this staple vegetable from the first day it comes into force.

Maddison Wilson, 27, is originally from Northamptonshire. She is now a new entrant farmer in Fife, Scotland, co-owner at Hadden Farm and contract shepherdess.

Proposals for a new solar farm spanning parts of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire which will see agricultural land taken out of production have faced strong opposition from local farmers.

Farm work pressures in a progressively more isolated role is increasing loneliness in the farming community as farmers struggle to socialise and share their problems.

Inaction from National Resources Wales (NRW) has seen farmland continue to be flooded every year, leaving Anglesey farmers exasperated.