Farm Life

A John Deere 3050 4wd will be auctioned at the Cheffins Cambridge Machinery Sale on 14th June 2021, with all proceeds to be donated to Alzheimers Research UK.

Britain’s agritourism sector is booming since the coronavirus pandemic, leading it to become one of the fastest growing sectors of the rural economy.

It is easy to farm when your plough is a smartphone, and you live a thousand miles from the cornfield.

I am writing this on Thursday evening after a day away from the farm spent doing a social media photography course organised by our local machinery ring.

Amy Wilkinson works on her family’s tenanted farm in Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285ha of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

Back for 2021, farming’s biggest online event #Farm24, in partnership with Morrisons, will celebrate British farming; sharing the farm to fork journey and showing the huge variety of roles and responsibilities taken on by farmers up and down the country.

An 11-year-old boy has been seriously injured in a farm incident after he fell from a tractor and trapped his leg in a mower. 

Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF)’s Farming Fortnight campaign has called on UK primary and secondary schools to focus on British farming and food production.

Time will tell if Jeremy Clarkson can do for agriculture what he did for the appeal of motoring journalism via Top Gear and, latterly, The Grand Tour, but his foray into farming via his new Amazon Prime show should make for entertaining viewing.

Jack Sadler is a 26-year-old graduate rural surveyor with CLM, a firm of farm business and environment consultants. From Cheshire, Jack is carving a career in the overlap between agriculture and conservation.