Farm Life

Tom Bruce, 27, lives in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Brought up on the family farm, he studied a masters in engineering and is now back working the land.

Kids are back at school, the nights are really drawing in and, thankfully, we’ve finished harvest.

Asking farmers to build on their progress and go even further to protect the countryside is the right thing to do, but they must be given as much support as possible from Government to get the job done, says High Peak MP Robert Largan.

When Gordon Beresford was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his daughter Aimee set out to raise awareness of the disease within the rural community. Emily Ashworth meets them to find out more.

Zimbabwe is to offer land back to former farmers as it looks to boost production across the country.

As I write this, we are busy preparing for our annual gimmer lamb sales at Junction 36 and Lancaster.

Christopher Murley farms in partnership with his two brothers and parents at two neighbouring farms on the western tip of Cornwall. Higher Bojewyan farm has 180 autumn-calving pedigree Jerseys and Levant farm runs 120 spring-calving cows on the 370-acre mostly grass enterprise.

Farming families looking to ‘future-proof’ their businesses have been urged to register for the Prince’s Farm Resilience Programme.

Food and biodiversity will be at the heart of LEAF Open Farm Sunday’s (LOFS) two-day virtual event this weekend (September 19 and 20).

Resilience seems a popular word recently. Looking it up on Google tells me it means ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness’. I quite like that and to me it sums up farming.