Farm Life

Our yearlings are lambing well, apart from the occasional large single. We designed the lambing shed so we did not have far to go to reach a bonding pen, which helps immensely with reluctant first time mums.

Marcus Doig, 27, graduated from Harper Adams University after spending a year in industry learning all aspects of modern dairy farming. He now manages a family owned 243-hectare dairy in Somerset, milking 300 cows. 

A leading mental health farming charity in Wales has said controversial new regulations which introduce closed periods for slurry spreading are ‘likely to cause stress’ for farmers.

Cumbrian farmers have highlighted a ‘catalogue of errors’ by the Environment Agency (EA) and Rivers Trust in their approaches to water management and flooding.

A farming family in Lancashire have been left disheartened after thieves stole money from an honesty box.

It is often said many lessons can be learned from history. Maybe modern life lures us into a false sense of security, or maybe man just has far to large an ego, but it seems like we have a tendency to ignore these lessons, usually to our detriment.

Farm groups have slammed a Defra plan to establish a rewilding forum, branding it an idea straight out of the Mad Hatters tea party.

Farm groups have slammed a Defra plan to establish a rewilding forum, branding it an idea ‘straight out of the Mad Hatter’s tea party’.

Britain’s Indian community have called on the UK to take action to support farmers protesting against agricultural reform laws. Minreet Kaur reports.

I think I tempted fate by mentioning the ’Beast from the East’ in my last column.