Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

An Aberdeenshire-based ice cream producer, Mackie’s of Scotland, is celebrating its most successful year, hitting the renewable energy record. 

The Scottish agricultural industry has joined forces for RSABI’s first Christmas online auction that brings together an array of gifts from local manufacturers.  

Jeremy Clarkson has shared his dissatisfaction with NFU’s plea for farmers not to go to London on 19th November, as he was planning to attend the farmers’ demonstration. 

Morrisons has committed to invest over £1.4 billion into British farming as well as announced a shopping discount for the supplying farmers.

Plans to build a solar farm as big as 144 football pitches on top-quality farmland in Lincolnshire have been rejected. 

The latest reports released by AHDB have compared English beef and lamb farmgate production standards with key competitors from around the world. 

Sugar beet breeder SESVanderHave has spoken about the importance of storability, as it is vital that the quality of the beets is maintained as they wait to be taken to the sugar plant. 

“We can’t simply turn up in numbers in Westminster on the streets. If you’re not registered on the event, please don’t travel to London,” said NFU in the letter to its members explaining that only 1,800 farmers should take part in the mass lobby. 

A Christmas tractor run will go ahead despite “considerable number” of farmers deciding not to take part following changes to inheritance tax that were announced at the Autumn Budget.

Bird keepers have been urged to follow scrupulous biosecurity measures following the confirmation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N5 in poultry in East Riding, Yorkshire. This is the first case confirmed since the declaration of zonal freedom in February. 

North Yorkshire Police have asked people to help identify two men following a farm shop theft in Richmondshire. 

Jeremy Clarkson has just confirmed that season five of Clarkson’s Farm is officially in production, while fans of the farming show are waiting for season four to come out.