mental health

Teams travelled from all over Scotland, from Inverness to Kelso, to take part in the annual Chuck Hay Farmers Bonspiel event

The former Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales shares her thoughts on bovine TB and highlights the recent FCN's report linking poor mental health and well-being to the impact of bTB

One of TV’s most well-loved farming shows, This Farming Life, has returned to our screens, and the Thomson family are hoping it will demonstrate the realities of agriculture

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on farmers' frustration of having to publicly defend the safety and viability of their businesses in light of public concerns around methane suppressors, Wales announces an all-wales avian influenza prevention zone, after it was declared across England and Scotland earlier in the week, and NFU Council members vote in favour of staging a further protest in the capital as part of a drive to halt the family farm tax

A new report commissioned by the Farming Community Network (FCN) has laid bare the impact of bTB on farmers' health

Clare Otridge, of Grounded Research, wrote to FG to update readers on a recent study asking farmers what challenges they feel are the hardest

Cheshire Young Farmers' Club discussed how rural isolation can have a deep impact on the health and wellbeing of farmers

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown takes a look at industry concerns following the Government's decision to refuse the emergency application of the use of neonicotinoid pesticide, Cruiser SB, on sugar beet in England for 2025, farmers are urged to be extra careful as Storm Eowyn hits the UK, and the Efra chair calls for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister to look at 'potential mitigations' to the inheritance tax reform

The Farming Community Network has teamed up with the University of Exeter on research which will listen to women's experiences of health in farming

Lucia Slack, an NHS mental health nurse from Cumbria, said she hopes to address suicide as the 'biggest hidden danger' in farming