Farm Life

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.

The Government has announced that funding to help English farmers tackle water and air pollution on their land will be doubled.

Young Farmers Clubs are looking to claw back members and recruit new ones after a tumultuous year which has seen membership halve.

Young Farmers’ Clubs are looking to claw back members and recruit new ones after a tumultuous year which has seen membership halve.

China was facing potential damage to its wheat crop, essential infrastructure and the threat of the ‘rapid spread’ of African swine fever (ASF) following extreme flooding in the Henan province.

I did not think it was possible to be more busy than we were before. July has been the most incredible month with second cut silage, our first ever hay crop and new calves arriving to be reared.

Kitty Stainsby, 25, is originally from Sussex. She now farms in the Forest of Dean, near Ruardean, Gloucestershire, with her partner James, 26, who is also a first generation farmer.