Farm Life

River flow and rainfall averages plummet as dry weather set to continue

Emma and family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farm gate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with RABI

The latest in the Next Generation Hill Farmers series, dedicated to discussing the vital future of upland farms, features 13-year-old Belle Hume who wants to secure her family's legacy

Roger Nicholson farms with his family at the heavily diversified Cannon Hall Farm, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, which has sparked various Channel 5 series including 'Springtime on the Farm'

Daera's plans to reform the Nutrients Action Programme and improve water quality have been described by UFU as a 'backdoor attempt' to reduce flocks and herds with increased layers of regulation

Morrisons said the sponsorship highlights its ongoing commitment to back British farming

Waitrose has joined Aldi in pledging to maintain the high quality standards set by British farmers amid uncertainty from US exports heading to the UK

Aldi said amid concerns that post-Brexit trade negotiations could lead to a 'weakening' of British farmers' high welfare standards, the retailer will do all it can to protect British farming and the high-quality food they produce

Cheryl Reeves, of Agri-cation CIC, Wrexham, won the Diversification of the Year (Small to Medium) award, sponsored by NFU Mutual, at the 2024 British Farming Awards for her efforts in using agriculture for social change

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Charles Goadby, mixed farmer from Nuneaton in Warwickshire