Farm Life

The Lynx UK Trust has singled out a forest near Loch Lomond, Scotland as a ‘lynx paradise’.

Private sales of livestock may be increasing, but they do not come with the same guarantees as live marts and could leave farmers open to unfair prices and payment dodgers.

With the Roundup now applied to some of the spring barley crops, we are on the short countdown to harvest.

Two free virtual Farmers Guardian events are offering UK farmers the chance to find out more about the opportunities the New Zealand agritech industry has to offer.

Vegans who buy milk substitutes are harming the planet and would be better switching to cow’s milk, according to a new study.

Government plans to capture carbon through tree planting will be severely undermined unless radical action is taken to cut emissions from degraded peatlands, according to new analysis from countryside charity CPRE.

Amy Wilkinson, 24, farms with her dad in Halsall, Lancashire. She rears 550 beef cattle through to finishing and farms 243 hectares (600 acres) of arable land.

Hayley Hanson, a welsh cattle farmer and owner of luxury leather brand, Hayley Hanson, will raffle off a handmade hide chair worth £2,000 to raise money for the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI).

New data has highlighted a drop in the number of game birds reared for the 2020 shooting season and a rise in poult prices due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Countryfile presenter Adam Henson said he recognised some in the farming community did not think the BBC’s flagship Sunday evening show was ‘agricultural enough’, but that he tried to make farming accessible to all.