Farm Life

An MP has accused Askham Bryan of asset stripping Newton Rigg in a brutal Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee hearing.

An MP has accused Askham Bryan of ‘asset stripping’ Newton Rigg in a brutal Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee hearing.

Farming bodies have called for further promotion of the Countryside Code to help tackle increasing ’anti-social behaviour’ incidents which are putting farmers, livestock, wildlife habitats and livelihoods at risk.

Photos of the aftermath of a dog attack which left a number of sheep and a pet dog dead have gone viral after being shared by online media platform LADbible.

A recently leaked memo revealed that Johnson was looking at implementing a sector-by-sector ‘carbon tax’ to encourage industries and organisations to reduce their emissions. 

New rules to protect the Amazon and other rainforests are set to hit UK farmers with added costs and paperwork.

A couple of weeks ago we lambed our Leicesters and were in a busy period of calving, the sun was shining and it really felt like spring. Lambs were starting to fill the fields further down the valley.

As spring approaches and the local amateur wildlife photographers start dusting off their cameras, the requests to come and photograph on the land start to come in.

Nearly five years after he was given a life-changing bowel cancer diagnosis, livestock farmer Wayne Smith speaks out about his initial cancer battle, the road to recovery and getting back to life on the farm. Hannah Park repo

On-farm vending retail has snowballed on one Flintshire family farm, where everything from raw and pasteurised milk to fresh meat, eggs and honey is available to buy from self-service machines.