Farm Life

Matthew Butterfield, 18, lives in Wimborne, Dorset. He is starting at Harper Adams University in September as part of the access to agriculture programme and will study a BSc in agriculture.

The British Nutrition Foundation has highlighted the benefits of eating meat and dairy in a new review paper.

The GMB union has called on the Government to change its approach after offering a miserly pay offer to the Environment Agency (EA).

Farmers will be watching plans for a reintroduction of beavers in England closely.

The GMB union has called on the Government to change its approach after offering a ‘miserly’ pay offer to the Environment Agency (EA).

Put in layman’s terms, an agricultural common is an area of land which has an owner, usually described as The Lord of the Manor, who doesn’t farm it but  allows another farmer to graze it if they have either bought the right to graze it when they bought his/her farm, or else pays for the right via the tenancy of the farm he/she farms.

Footpaths in the Lake District are eroding rapidly because of higher numbers of walkers during the Covid- 19 pandemic, charity Fix The Fells has warned.

Mid-August and the often-talked-about ’mid-summer dip’ arrived.

He swapped his rugby boots for wellies, but after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, Doddie Weir is determined to help others in the same position. Emily Ashworth finds out more.