Farm Life

To mark 100 years of the NFU in Suffolk, a new ale has been launched in collaboration with St. Peter’s Brewery.

Getting the right people to work on farms and in the wider supply chain has been a challenge for the industry for some time now.

In theory, it should be fairly easy to farm while staying two metres away from every other human being. Open fields and solitary tractor cabs mean arable farming is fairly self-isolating at the best of times. There are clearly fewer face-to-face meetings than, say, being Prime Minister.

A GP and chairman of NFU Scotland’s Stewartry Branch has advised farmers to take Covid-19 infection control seriously and to think of it as being like foot- and- mouth, but affecting humans.

Farm groups have welcomed a series of emergency measures issued by Government to support Welsh farmers during the coronavirus outbreak.

Four young breeders travelled across the globe last month to represent the UK at the World Hereford Conference. Emily Ashworth speaks to the team to find out more.

The farming industry has united to pay tribute to the NHS and social care workers tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

At the outset of a time of increased pressure on the farming industry, I wanted to share my views on how to protect vulnerable people in your business from contracting Covid-19, says Oliver Dale, MD at Safety Revolution.

Pictures, tweets and tales from the farming community, all doing their utmost to raise peoples spirits.

In the last of a blog series looking at mental health within agriculture, Naomi Wright, of Therpay with Naomi, looks at ways farmers can look at making time for themselves.