Farm Life

A farmer has branded the Environment Agency (EA) ‘unwilling’ to help tackle flooding after a string of requests to ensure efficient water flow management have been ignored.

Seventy-five square metres of farmland set alight after a pig swallowed a pedometer, which then combusted in its pen after excretion.

A record breaking 360 tractors turned out to support Knaresborough Young Farmers Club on March 9 in their annual tractor run to fundraise for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Are you okay? It is sometimes a difficult question to answer, difficult to answer honestly. As farmers we can be stubborn. You cannot live a life where you feed and check livestock every single day through the monotony of winter without being.

It is International Women’s Day (March 8) and there are some incredible women in the industry. Here, Emily Ashworth looks at ten social media accounts to follow to learn more about life in agriculture.

Britain’s rising need for food security in a post-Brexit world will lead to a higher strategic value being placed on farmland, delegates attending a seminar at the Floodex event heard.

March is already upon us, with spring soon approaching as gauged by the daffodils, primroses and the date on the calendar. However, most days these last few weeks, the climate has been extremely changeable, with four seasons on several days, but the constant theme has been rain and more rain.

Students at a popular North West college are facing an uncertain future, following the news of an independent strategic review into Newton Rigg, Penrith.

Farm groups call for urgent government reform of ‘inadequate’ hare coursing laws