Farm Life

Has 2020 been the year when British consumers have re-found their love of local?

As the issue of tackling mental wellbeing in farming remains a talking point, members of the farming community offer perspectives on the importance of looking after yourself and others. Farmers Guardian reports.

Farm shops and local producers will be the destination for 40 per cent of consumers this Christmas, with trust in the farming sector rocketing throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

A farmer has died after being crushed in a tractor incident.

Arla has published a digital book based on a dairy farm and his cow to inspire children to take a more active role in making positive food choices.

By the time you read this, we should all be emerging out of lockdown 2.0. Like all sequels, it was delayed in its release, had budget concerns and was not well received by the populace. Still, let’s be honest, it wasn’t as bad as Rocky V, was it?

In the week we learned a scotch egg constituted a ‘substantial’ meal and The Path to Sustainable Farming was published by Defra, we were catching up on a list of autumnal jobs on-farm.

For farmers it’s a novelty to have your hometown in the news. Even rarer to see bits of your farm in the papers.

A rewilding charity is to challenge the Scottish Government’s nature agency NatureScot in court over what it sees as a failure to make the killing of beavers a genuine last resort.

Protections on areas such as greenbelt in the Government’s new planning policy will allow for consideration of appropriate development, according to Branwen Evans, deputy director of planning policy and reform, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.