News

A competition to find a UK sheep farmer to front the Love Lamb Week campaign next year has been launched by the National Sheep Association (NSA).

Spring barley harvest started for us last week and has so far been very stop start, with the opportunity to cut reasonably dry malting barley limited to three sunny afternoons.

We finally felt like we had turned a corner with our farming enterprise. We were above target for the year in terms of silage, cattle growth and our bank balance.

A member of the public driving a mobile scooter on a farm track has died in a farm collision.

English farmers can tap into free bovine TB advice and increased trained vet visits regardless of their risk status, following Defra granting the TB Advisory Service (TBAS) Successor Contract to Farmcare Solutions. 

Following the launch of its 8S and 5S tractor series last year, Massey Ferguson has addressed the ranges sandwiched between the first to receive the new styling. Alex Heath reports.

As the year turns to its final third, the autumn sheep sales are starting with favourable prices which reflect the sector’s wider positivity.

JCB is forging ahead with the development of alternatives to diesel engines with the Staffordshire-based manufacturer believing hydrogen is the future fuel for combustion engines. Alex Heath finds out more.

As AHDB launches the next phase of its We Eat Balanced campaign, Mollie Leach looks at the work being done to reinforce the role of British farmers in sustainable, world-class meat and dairy production.

Cameron Knee, 28, is from Bath, Somerset, but currently works as a farm manager on a mixed farm in Aberdeen.