Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

The number of flood warnings on England’s best farmland last winter hit a record high, exceeding the previous record by 20%. 

William Purves Funeral Directors has revealed its custom-made Land Rover Defender hearse for families and funeral directors to hire.

New Holland is celebrating two great achievements, 60 years of tractor production in Basildon and the manufacturing of its two millionth tractor at the plant. 

The Health and Safety Executive has recently published its work-related fatality figures for 2023/24, which revealed that agriculture has the poorest safety record of any occupation in the country. 

Wales Farm Safety Partnership and Lantra Cymru have created a new e-learning course, ‘Children on Farms’, which guides farmers on how to keep children safe on farms during the upcoming summer holidays.  

A Wellington dairy farmer was given a suspended prison sentence and was ordered to pay £10,000 for allowing slurry to run into the Westford Stream. 

Tesco has announced its partnership with a Cheshire-based farm to trial a methane-reducing feed supplement for dairy cows. 

UKOPA’s latest Infringement Working Group report revealed that there were more than 800 infringements recorded along the UK’s network of buried pipelines last year. Each infringement could not only lead to prosecution or significant environmental damage but also put landowners and contractors at significant risk of harm or even death.  

After over forty years in business, a family-run agricultural engineering business, R C Setchfield Ltd, decided to close down its premises. 

As more and more farmers have started this year’s harvest, Farmers Guide issues the latest update from around the country. 

Northern Powergrid is celebrating Farm Safety Week by sharing vital safety messages that encourage farmers, farm workers and agricultural students to ‘Look Up It’s Live’ as well as by providing top tips on how to work together to stay safe when working near overhead power lines. 

This week marks Farm Safety Week. The annual campaign led and funded by the Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies) has been raising awareness of the many dangers of working in the farming industry.