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In Your Field: Rachel Coates - 'I attended an excellent first aid training course'

In your field

In Your Field: Rachel Coates - 'I attended an excellent first aid training course'

As the tabloid press are fond of saying - 'what a scorcher'.

clock 24 June 2023 • 2 min read
In Your Field: James Robinson - 'As farmers, I know we will have to become more adapted to unusual periods of weather'

In your field

In Your Field: James Robinson - 'As farmers, I know we will have to become more adapted to unusual periods of weather'

While I was writing my previous In Your Field article, I was sat listening to the neighbour's mower cutting their first cut silage, and I was also commenting on the lack of grass on our own meadows.

clock 24 June 2023 • 3 min read
Good Evans: 'People can't eat trees and wildflower meadows'

Dairy

Good Evans: 'People can't eat trees and wildflower meadows'

This month, Roger Evans discusses his fascination with the stories behind old farming pictures, how farmers are no longer recognised for the work they do in producing food, and why romance certainly isn't dead in the countryside.

clock 23 June 2023 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk: Gemma Smale-Rowland - 'These [weather] extremes seem to be coming much more commonplace'

Dairy

Dairy Talk: Gemma Smale-Rowland - 'These [weather] extremes seem to be coming much more commonplace'

Is it a British obsession with the weather or is it just farmers. I wonder what it would be like to work in an office and the weather have no effect on your life other than deciding if it is a BBQ for the weekend or not

clock 23 June 2023 • 2 min read
Farming Matters: Janet Swadling - 'Skills and knowledge lie at the heart of the industry's ability to innovate and adapt'

Farming Matters: Janet Swadling - 'Skills and knowledge lie at the heart of the industry's ability to innovate and adapt'

Janet Swadling OBE is a TIAH board member and former chief executive

clock 23 June 2023 • 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Ellie Dugdale: 'I feel it is important to back British farmers as they continue to supply the nation with high quality food'

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Ellie Dugdale: 'I feel it is important to back British farmers as they continue to supply the nation with high quality food'

Ellie Dugdale, 24, is a sheep and dairy farmer from Giggleswick in North Yorkshire

clock 23 June 2023 • 2 min read
Dairy Matters: "We will just batten down the hatches and wait for the tide to change"

Dairy

Dairy Matters: "We will just batten down the hatches and wait for the tide to change"

Tenant dairy farmer Liz Haines discusses the impact that cost of production is having on her business and how she expects to ride out the storm

clock 23 June 2023 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk: Tom Rawson - 'I have always seen the Netherlands as a major player in the dairy industry [which] feels under pressure now'

Dairy

Dairy Talk: Tom Rawson - 'I have always seen the Netherlands as a major player in the dairy industry [which] feels under pressure now'

Well the weather is again at the front of our minds after what can only be described as a rubbish Spring, it now appears to be hot and dry

clock 22 June 2023 • 3 min read
BASIS news: FACTS to focus on managing soils for effective nutrient supply

Arable Farming

BASIS news: FACTS to focus on managing soils for effective nutrient supply

The 2023/24 FACTS annual online assessment scheme for agriculture and vegetables will deal with the broad, but highly topical subject of ‘managing soils for effective nutrient supply’.

clock 21 June 2023 • 2 min read
Father's Day: 10 things that prove you have a farming dad - 'you have been picked up from school in some questionable machinery'

Farm Life

Father's Day: 10 things that prove you have a farming dad - 'you have been picked up from school in some questionable machinery'

It is Father's Day (June 18) and our In Your Field writer Amy Wilkinson gives us 10 points that prove you have a farming dad.

clock 18 June 2023 • 2 min read