Farm Life

The Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RSABI), the charity supporting people in Scottish agriculture, is looking for participants for its virtual Great Glen Challenge event taking place on Friday, August 27.

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade.

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade.

Eveey Hunter, 27, works for the family farm business, managing the admin and accounts as well as provides freelance consultancy work for other haulage and farm businesses. She is also on the NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador programme, and recently launched a farm safety initiative asking farmers to list five things they could do to make their farm safer.

Projects to create new woodland, deliver natural flood risk management and improve water quality are among an initial 27 schemes to benefit from a new fund to drive private investment in nature, Defra and Natural England have announced.

Two quad bikes were stolen by ’opportunist’ thieves from exhibitors’ stands at the Great Yorkshire Show.

The pandemic has given people a greater appreciation of the landscapes farmers provide, with 71 per cent of people saying they feel fortunate to be able to access the British countryside a new survey has found.

Farmers have been urged to make public safety part of their health and safety policy following an increase in on-farm fatalities this year.