Farm Life

If the British are a nation of curtain twitchers then there is every chance I have joined their ranks. Since lockdown at the end of March, those Farmers Guardian staff who were office-based have swapped life on a business park for life at home.

August 21 marks the day the UK would run out of food if it relied on homegrown produce

So it is now official, the UK is in recession as a result of two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Securing planning permission for new agricultural tied dwellings has eased succession planning for three generations of farmers. Farmers Guardian reports.

During my early-teen growth spurt I had skinny, matchstick legs and gigantic size-12 feet which I could barely control. This made me hopeless at football – this was in the1980s and Peter Crouch had not surfaced yet.

Determined to help its sheep milk suppliers when lockdown hit, family-run cheesemakers Shepherds Purse fast tracked the launch of a new product to create some demand for the specialist raw material it was handling. Hannah Park reports.

It is just over a week on from the incredible success of #Farm24. Huge congratulations once again to the team at Farmers Guardian for another spectacular event and massive thank you to sponsors Morrisons because without sponsors many dreams would not be realised.

Increasing both quality and quantity of their livestock is the driving force behind Tom Hill and Ruby Wright’s South Yorkshire farming business.

I am pleased to be hiding from the heat and catching up on office work. A week of 30degC heat (and more) and not a drop of rain has parched already severely dry ground and there is not a bite of grass over most of the farm.

The flytipping scourge has continued with Davy Shanks faced with the cleanup of two tonnes of rotting meat