British Farming Awards

Announcing the winners for the Young British Farming Awards 2024

The Young BFAs, a brand-new initiative launched as part of the prestigious British Farming Awards and hosted by Farmers Guardian, aims to recognise and celebrate the remarkable upcoming talent within the agricultural industry

This year's British Farming Awards Agri-Tech Innovator of the Year finalists are all accelerating the growth of an exciting sector, providing a wealth of support and solutions to farming practices

The judges were looking for the entrants to be exploring new ideas and opportunities

In my last column, I wrote about how we were embracing a zero-grazing system, which initially increased our milk yield but significantly added to our workload. Forget that! A few weeks later, yields dipped, grass quality was poor and we were fed up with the extra tractor work and scraping copious amounts of muck. Also, it eventually stopped raining

The British Farming Awards celebrate excellence in our rural sector. Who has made the shortlist this year?

The former Premier League winners said it was delighted to join forces with the farm business to showcase the benefits of dairy

Robert and Becca Rennie who contract farm at Mowhaough and Attonburn on the Roxburgh Estate aim to maximise the value of every animal leaving the farm

Professionalism and utilising technology led to success for Kevin Heywood of A.J. Heywood and Sons. Toby Whatley speaks to the Cornish contractor about winning BFA Contractor of the Year

Since coming back to the family farm in 2021, the 2023 BFA Dairy Farmer of the Year Patrick Morris-Eyton has taken his family's dairy business on a journey of expansion, and this journey is far from over