Farm Life

The Royal Highland Show, Scotland’s biggest outdoor event, normally attracting nearly 200,000 visitors, has been cancelled.

Livestock auction marts have urged farmers to only attend sales if conducting trade, as concerns over the impact of coronavirus grow.

The National Sheep Association (NSA) has challenged the Government’s focus on tree planting and peatland restoration as a means to mitigate climate change.

A Council has been blasted for its ‘heartbreaking’ decision to sell a farm to a private bidder. 

In the second of a blog series looking at mental health within agriculture, Naomi Wright, of Therpay with Naomi, looks at what can cause an onset of mental health problems and what we can do to notice changes in ourselves and others.

Any farm-built invention or installation that improves the lives of the stock and owners has to be commended. For one farm improving foot health, that meant building its own foot washer.

Police have urgently appealed to the public for more information after eighteen sheep were deliberately run over and killed in Warwickshire.

Loans given to UK farming businesses increased by 22 per cent to £572m during 2019, according to new figures released at the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation’s (AMC) annual agent conferences.