Author Posts: Sarah Kidby

As the sixth Mind Your Head Week begins, the parents of young Warwickshire farmer Leonard Eadon, who died by suicide last year, have joined a campaign to call for greater action to support mental health in farming.

AHDB has produced its latest Agri-market Outlook, which explores the factors likely to affect farm businesses.

Attention to detail, especially during the transition period, is helping ensure high yields on Lower Lee Farm in Shropshire.

A funded yearly vet visit is now available to farmers under the government’s Animal Health and Welfare Pathway.

The Environment Agency is seeking views from farmers and landowners to help tackle waste crime in England.

Free-to-use diversification website The Business Barn is asking farmers and rural landowners to share their experiences.

Field trials for a cattle vaccine and new skin test for bovine TB have moved to the next phase, the APHA confirmed today (6th February).

Dairy innovator smaXtec was named winner of the Royal Dairy Innovation Award this year, for its new product TruDrinking.

The Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) has published the latest figures for UK agricultural tractor registrations.

Reports of avian flu being detected in foxes and otters in the UK have prompted concerns that the virus could become yet more widespread, and pose a risk to human health.

Farmers of the future were given potentially life-saving advice from UK Power Networks, during a visit to Hadlow College in Kent.

The 16-week derogation period, allowing eggs to be labelled free range despite the avian flu housing order, comes to an end in East Anglia on 1st February – but labelling has changed across the UK to avoid confusion.