Farm Life

Share farming is increasingly popular for people wanting to get a foot on the farming ladder, as well as those struggling with succession. Ruth Wills looks at some of the options.

Border Leicester sheep have become a valued part of a young offenders’ rehabilitation programme, initiated by a prison service in Northern Ireland. Hannah Park reports.

Police have appealed for information after 19 pregnant North England Mule sheep were stolen in the North East of Scotland.

A sheepdog trialler has been left feeling devastated after four female sheepdogs worth approximately £13,500 were stolen from his kennels.

Agri-businesses are becoming more inclusive in terms of gender and racial diversity, but while awareness of equality in the sector is growing there is still more to be done, a new survey has found.

Talk of workforce shortage is plentiful in the farming press and agri-social media, but solutions are much harder to find.

Prominent Beef Shorthorn breeder and former Quality Meat Scotland chairman Donald Biggar died suddenly at his home

A TikTok video showing a young child being lifted on the front of a telehandler has been widely condemned by industry.

Another application to release lynx in Kielder Forest in the Scottish Borders looks doubtful, the National Sheep Association (NSA) has said. 

As our financial year drew to a close on January 31 we found ourselves trying to sift through the wreckage of a year ravaged by Covid-19.