Farm Life

A Welsh farmer has fallen 40 metres into a quarry while checking livestock and is in a ’serious but stable condition’.

A man has been sentenced for the theft of sheep in the West Midlands earlier this year.

More farmers were looking to sell raw milk to the public during the pandemic as consumer habits evolved.

Catherine McKenna, 26, works on her family sheep farm in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

What a difference a few days of sunshine can make. In the east, October was the second dullest of all time, and one of the rainiest too. But November has dawned, skies are blue and the fields are fit.

Defra’s former chief scientist Professor Ian Boyd has called on Government to spend as much on food research as it does on health research.  

Until 2011, Red Hall Farm was home to a herd of dairy cows, but fast forward to present day and it is a very different product which is now being sold off the farm. Katie Jones reports.

Pasture monitoring and feed budgeting is central to the system for brothers Aled and Iwan Evans, as they aim to achieve optimum output per hectare while consistently reaching their desired profit margin. Hannah Park reports.

If readers of Farmers Guardian were to look at their favourite landscapes they would no doubt see vistas shaped by agriculture, with farmers at their heart.