Farm Life

The Countryside Alliance has called on the BBC to apply its new impartiality rules to environmental activist and presenter Chris Packham.

Few farmers get to start from a blank page, but upon arrival at Sharcott Farm on Exmoor, that is exactly where Simon and Sarah Keily first found themselves. Rachel Lovell reports.

Flavian Obiero, 29, is a pig unit manager at Plumpton College in East Sussex.

Trends in farming come and go, but at the very heart of livestock breeding is a group of enthusiasts who support their breed through thick and thin. Sarah Todd reports.

A partially stripped Land Rover Defender found in a maize field has been recovered by police in the West Midlands.

The National Sheep Association (NSA) has branded new research which claims sheep farmers would be better off afforesting their land ‘fundamentally flawed’.

With theatrical performances under threat due to Covid-19 restrictions, an arable farmer in the Midlands has constructed an earthen amphitheatre to provide the arts industry with a space to perform.

At the start of this year, I said 2020 could be the year of opportunity for dairy. Little did I know at the NFU Conference in February that we would all be facing a global pandemic and the many challenges which have arisen as a result of Covid-19.

Writing this as we enter the last week of August I am reminded of how our industry is at the mercy of the weather.

Familiar faces in North Country Cheviot circles, Bill and Fanny Elliot have had the tenancy at Hethpool for more than 20 years. With a change of hands approaching, Hannah Park pays them a visit.