Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

The cost of rural crime in the UK has exceeded the estimated £50 million last year as thieves became more organised and determined, according to new figures from NFU Mutual.  

Farmers around the UK have taken to the fields during the recent warm and sunny weather, to progress harvest in both barley and oilseed rape, as well as making a start on winter wheat.

After serving the community for nearly 40 years, a machinery specialist, MKM Agriculture Limited, has announced the closure of one of its branches. 

A new £500,000 funding programme that aims to support community-led projects in rural Northumberland and Cumbria has just been announced. 

Authorities in Greece have ordered nationwide restrictions for goats and sheep to tackle a deadly outbreak. 

Two motorcyclists have been hospitalised following a crash involving a tractor. 

Farming communities have responded to the report from the National Audit Office (NAO) on the Farming and Countryside Programme that has recently been published. 

The investigation continues into the death of a Lancashire farmer who suffered gunshot injuries. 

Potato crops have endured long periods of weather conditions highly conducive to blight this season. Reports of blight outbreaks submitted for testing with the Fight Against Blight campaign have now topped 135 incidences across the UK. 

Adam Henson’s farmer wellbeing podcast, which launched last year, has been followed by the second series. 

UK livestock farmers have been warned of the potential risk to their animals posed by two types of fungi in grain. 

With this year’s harvest underway, with the help of increasingly large and impressive machinery, we take a trip down memory lane, to the harvests of decades gone by.