Opinion and blogs
In your field: James Wright - 'It is great to see so many people enjoying the countryside again'
June is the month that our new Holland telehandler goes back after its year long stay as part of the Up to Speed scheme with the Prince’s Countryside Fund.
11 June 2022
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In your field: Rachel Coates - 'Shows are back but £4 for an ice cream is a sign of the times'
05 June 2022
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2 min read
In your field: James Robinson - 'Our farm is an odd shape but I love farming here'
04 June 2022
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3 min read
In your field: Ian Garnett - 'I wonder about the value placed on food and on food security'
29 May 2022
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2 min read
Dairy Matters: "It needs effectively communicating how rewarding working in the sector is"
26 May 2022
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6 min read
Livestock
Dan Burdett and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place near Edenbridge, Kent.
25 May 2022
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3 min read
Livestock
Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 180 pedigree Holsteins under the Springlebee prefix at Centenary Farm, a Cheshire county council farm. In 2021, they bought a farm in Staffordshire and they plan to farm there once the new dairy set-up has been built.
24 May 2022
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3 min read
Livestock
Lambing’s almost over (at last) and calving is well through here at Hundleshope.
22 May 2022
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3 min read