Farm Life

Farmers have been encouraged to reach out to their communities and #sharetheload this World Suicide Prevention Day.

Hedgerows, for some people, can be very emotive things. Part of the patchwork quilt that forms much of the UK landscape, they provoke a range of feelings from the farming and non-farming fraternity.

Mhairi Strang, 26, is from Eaglesham, Glasgow. She graduated from the University of Glasgow with a business and management degree and milks 350 dairy cows, all year round calving, selling 150 stores each year.

Gun owners who bought weapons via the Guntrader website are being warned that their personal details have been posted online following a data breach.

The council has promised the farmer a ’cast iron guarantee’ housing developments would not go ahead on the site

The council has promised the farmer a ’cast iron guarantee’ housing developments would not go ahead on the site

This week marks 91 years since the last full time inhabitants on the islands of St Kilda were evacuated.

Spring barley harvest started for us last week and has so far been very stop start, with the opportunity to cut reasonably dry malting barley limited to three sunny afternoons.

We finally felt like we had turned a corner with our farming enterprise. We were above target for the year in terms of silage, cattle growth and our bank balance.