Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

The farming community has paid tribute to Staffordshire farmer and NFU dairy board member David Brookes, who died aged 65. 

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has revealed that Northern Ireland’s total income from farming has fallen by 44% in 2023. 

Farmers have been reminded to be vigilant of gundog theft as we entered the Gundog Theft Awareness Week. 

“The only sensible course of action is for the Treasury to reverse this decision,” said the NFU president following the meeting with Defra secretary of state and Treasury officials to stress the significant impact changes to Inheritance Tax (IHT) would have on British food and farming. 

More than 125,000 people signed a petition to stop the government’s changes to inheritance tax relief on farm property that were announced during Autumn Budget last week. 

A substantial number of livestock has been killed and two barns with equipment were destroyed in a blaze, leaving a Guisborough farm owner “devastated”. 

An estimated £4 million worth of stolen vehicles and equipment have been recovered by the Warwickshire Police Rural Crime Team since the squad was launched five years ago. 

A Scottish dairy, Mossgiel Organic Farm, has launched what it claims is the most natural chocolate milk on the market, called ‘brown cow milk’.  

Well-known farmer-comedian Jim Smith and popular local musicians, Peter Morrison and Seamus MacLennan, will take to the stage on Skye this December for an unforgettable night of music and laughter. 

Plans to build a solar farm as big as 144 football pitches on top-quality farmland in Lincolnshire have met with mixed responses from local residents. 

British farmers will hit London streets later this month to show their dissatisfaction with the government’s new Budget that is going to have a “devastating impact” on their businesses as well as families. 

Farmers have been warned that RSPCA Assured will ‘significantly’ increase the number of announced and unannounced farm visits, following a review of the scheme.