Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

A 22-year-old shepherdess was crushed to death when her quad bike – overloaded with weed killer – toppled over while she worked on farmland in the Cotswolds, an inquest heard.

Morrisons has just announced it will lower its poultry stocking density to 30kg/m2 by the end of the year.

As the second storm has hit the country in just 48 hours, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, NFU Mutual has offered some advice to help farmers protect themselves and their businesses.

Farm animals worth an estimated £1.8 million were killed or injured by out-of-control dogs in only one year, NFU Mutual says.

Sugar beet farmers have been conditionally granted an emergency authorisation to use Cruiser SB to protect their beets against virus yellows.

Farmer and celebrity known from Clarkson’s Farm, Kaleb Cooper, is launching a music single to raise awareness of the struggles facing farmers and the farming community. All the profits will be donated to the RABI farming charity.

The NFU has made an urgent call for action after the latest statistics show that more than one million incidents of fly-tipping were reported across England last year.

Tesco has said it will temporarily accept some smaller-than-usual sprouts, cauliflowers, cabbages and leeks to help UK farmers struggling with the devastating weather conditions that have affected their livelihoods.

Suffolk Highways came under criticism on social media after it referred to a large amount of sugar beet being ‘fly-tipped’ on a road in Ipswich. It’s thought a local farmer was forced to store the beet there due to waterlogged land following recent flooding.

Comments made by Welsh Labour MS Mike Hedges about farm funding have been criticised by the Welsh farming union and described as “completely out of touch”. During a Senedd plenary debate on Wednesday, 10th January, Swansea East MS Hedges said that “there is no reason to subsidise agriculture”.

Although Blue Monday has been officially named the gloomiest day of the year, help is available every day for farmers who face mental health problems.

Independent trials carried out by the AHDB have shown that Univoq fungicide from Corteva Agriscience continues to be one of the leading treatments against septoria and rusts.