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Charlotte Budgen is one of the faces of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week. She tells Hannah Binns about her career journey into agricultural engineering to date.

A substantial increase in the amount of British pork on Asda shelves has driven an overall rise in British pork on display across the big retailers

A consultation on proposed changes to the Linking Environment and Farming (Leaf) Marque Standard, which sets out the requirements for the certification, has opened.

Currently, for a mainstream arable farmer the most important tools are a calculator, plenty of pens and paper, and for many like me, copious amounts of coffee.

A farmer has received almost £140,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund for his charity aiming to break the stigma surrounding isolation, loneliness and poor mental wellbeing prevalent within rural communities.

A growing black market for stolen diesel and heating oil due to rising fuel prices has renewed calls for farmers to be vigilant against ‘opportunist’ thieves this Christmas. 

It is the season of school nativity plays – Covid-19 permitting – and I listen to the strains of Away In A Manger sung by some angelic voices and some rather discordant reedy voices.

A variety of the fungus that causes phoma on oilseed rape and other brassicas has been discovered in Europe for the first time, at sites in southern England and Northern Ireland.

Friendly service is the main driver to farm shops and independent retailers as Christmas customers seek out ‘comfort and joy’.

Following a boom in staycations in 2020 and 2021, campsite owners and the industry are calling on the Government to extend temporary campsite dates again in 2022