Farm Life

First Milk has become the latest processor to announce ambitious sustainability plans, pledging to be net zero by 2040.

The National Sheep Association (NSA) and the RSPCA have united to highlight the potential devastation to farmers and their livestock by attacks from dogs ahead of Easter.

It is great to be writing my first column this week, with it just being International Women’s Day and the global theme of Women in Leadership.

With the hotel, hospitality and tourist industries still in lockdown, you would think their purchasing power would be missed in the market with the knock-on effect being sharply felt at the farm gate with depressed prices.

We welcomed our son Arthur into the world on February 23. Isobel was an absolute hero and after a long labour and a bit of a scare he arrived surrounded by the midwives and doctors. We were home the next day and cannot thank the NHS enough.

Australia’s farmers continue to reel from the devastating power of Mother Nature as New South Wales (NSW) was deluged by the most destructive floods in more than 40 years. Bruce Jobson reports.

Perhaps the die has been cast regarding the future of the levy boards following the latest ballot result on the desirability of AHDB Potatoes.

Having now retired from his rugby refereeing career, Nigel Owens is busy developing his own farm in west Wales, with pedigree Hereford cattle at the core of his operation. Laura Bowyer finds out more.

With Leaf’s Open Farm Sunday event set to go ahead face-to-face when lockdown eases, as well as online, Farmers Guardian caught up with one farming family gearing up to welcome members of the public again this year.

Grant Stephen, 23, from Dallas, Moray, is a general farm worker with a herd of 140 pedigree Simmentals. He has a small herd of pedigree Beef Shorthorns and comes from a farming family with 80 suckler cows and 500 breeding ewes.