Farm Life

It must seem like In Your Field writers are obsessed by the weather as we always start off with a remark about it. Well, I’m afraid this month I’m following the same pattern.

Police dealt with more than 1,100 incidents of sheep worrying in 2020, up from 800 in 2019, with some forces called out to multiple attacks each week.

Farm groups in England and Wales have called on their Governments to carry out investigations after water companies were caught illegally dumping sewage in rivers.

Although the Porter name in Scotland is synonymous with Angus Soft Fruits, few know that Willie Porter’s love of beef stock created a desire to improve the industry. Ewan Pate finds out more.

As Dorothy Fairburn retires from her role as CLA’s director north this spring, she spoke to Clemmie Gleeson about her life and career in the countryside, her Nuffield scholarship on suicide in the farming community and her pl

Emma Harper, SNP MSP, is a dairy farmer’s daughter from Dumfries and Galloway and has been instrumental in toughening up Scottish laws around livestock worrying.

Matthew Rollason, 24, is from Great Harwood, Lancashire. He works in the agri-food research and development team for Dunbia. He has also established New Dawn Herefords and is an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador.

New Scottish Government proposals for reducing emissions from slurry and silage stores have been met with a severe rebuke from NFU Scotland, with the union branding them ‘blunt and ill thought out’.

A farmer was trampled to death when he climbed into a pen housing 17 uncastrated bulls, an inquest jury heard.

As I sit and write this, the children have returned to school.