News

I am writing this on Thursday evening after a day away from the farm spent doing a social media photography course organised by our local machinery ring.

A proposal by dairy lobbyists to ban any resemblances between milk products and plant-based products has been dropped by the EU parliament.

Amy Wilkinson works on her family’s tenanted farm in Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285ha of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

An 11-year-old boy has been seriously injured in a farm incident after he fell from a tractor and trapped his leg in a mower. 

HS2 has been slammed as ’dishonest, misleading and inconsistent’ in an ombudsman’s report following complaints made by a West Midlands farmer.

Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF)’s Farming Fortnight campaign has called on UK primary and secondary schools to focus on British farming and food production.

Thirteen European food and farming groups have joined forces to call on the EU to complete a ‘holistic’ impact assessment of the target to reduce pesticide use by 50 per cent by 2030.

The Government’s new bovine TB policy could lead to a potential resurgence in the disease across England, undermining years of industry effort to stamp it out, industry chiefs have warned. 

Time will tell if Jeremy Clarkson can do for agriculture what he did for the appeal of motoring journalism via Top Gear and, latterly, The Grand Tour, but his foray into farming via his new Amazon Prime show should make for entertaining viewing.

Farmers were having to make difficult decisions on fertiliser purchases with both wheat and fertiliser prices high