Farm Life

Loneliness is a key risk factor for mental health issues in farmers with 94 per cent of respondents to a Farmers Guardian online poll agreeing that it posed a risk to mental wellbeing.

The National Trust has announced 1,200 jobs are at risk as it seeks to reduce its annual spend and size of its workforce to negate further financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

The eagerly anticipated National Food Strategy (NFS) for England has set out a number of formal recommendations for protecting food production standards in trade deals.

A staycation surge in the popularity of camping due to Covid-19 is set to present new diversification ‘opportunities’ for farmers.

Farm groups have welcomed Government plans to scrap EU greening requirements for direct payments from 2021.

A farmer has paid a special tribute to the NHS by planting thousands of sunflowers to create a message which spans over 200ft in his field. 

Talk of broken supply chains is plentiful on agri-social media and in the farming press, but solutions are much harder to find.

John Hunt, 22, is a Harper Adams graduate from Woburn, Cambridgeshire, and is set to start work as a business analyst for the G’s Group, a national salad producer.

After one of the quietest ever periods for farm sales, the market is bouncing back, partly driven by city buyers looking for rural isolation in the wake of lockdown.

This year is turning out to be a bit of a weather rollercoaster here in Dorset. The decent amount of rain we had a few weeks ago did us the world of good, but has quickly gone and we are again desperate for rain and struggling for grazing grass.