Farm Life

From torrential rain to a heatwave within a matter of days. July threw the proverbial kitchen sink at us in terms of weather conditions.

A man from Hereford who stole £87,640 worth of sheep has been sentenced to eight months in prison.

Edward Lord, 19, is from Market Drayton, North Shropshire and has recently completed his first year of studying agriculture with business management at Aberystwyth University.

Industry must stop tolerating the ‘reckless behaviour’ of using mobile phones while driving tractors, quad bikes and heavy machinery.

#Farm24, agriculture’s biggest online event, took social media by storm as it trended at number one on Twitter yesterday.

The Farmers Guardian team are gearing up to film a host of live streaming from their different bases across the UK.

The Board of Trade, a Government body headed up by Trade Secretary Liz Truss, has claimed buying local food is ‘not always the most environmentally sustainable choice’.

Farmers have reacted angrily to a threat from Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths to ‘close’ chicken sheds in order to tackle water pollution.

The former national chairman of the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs is set to welcome the BBC on-farm in a bid to showcase the valuable work farmers do to keep the nation fed 24/7 during this year’s #Farm24 event.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic seeing a 20.3 per cent fall in rural crime costs totalling £43.3 million in 2020, the lowest annual level in five years, thieves returned to UK farmyards with new tactics and targets.