Rural News

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. 

Conrad Energy, a UK energy company that generates, buys, sells and manages energy, has announced the signing of a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Belton Farm.  

As barley, OSR and vining pea and bean harvesting gets underway in many areas, weather forecasts are indicating a spell of warmer weather – but there’s more rain to come.

Controversial plans for a huge solar farm to be built on the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border have just been approved by the new secretary of state for energy. 

A poultry farmer from Somerset has been ordered to pay over £50,000 for falsifying salmonella testing certificates for chickens and eggs before they went into the food chain. 

Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone brewery has been named one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK. 

Bettws Hall Farm has raised £1,000 through its farm tours in April, which showcased 400 single suckle cows, along with its breeding stock of cattle and 800 NZ highlander ewes. 

Hampshire Police are urging farmers to be extra vigilant for hare coursing activity following a recent incident that saw a farmer being threatened with a catapult. 

126 sheep have been stolen from a farmland in Nottinghamshire. 

Nearly 200 people took part in this year’s Pink Ladies Tractor Road Run, raising tens of thousands for Cancer Research UK.

Experienced wheat breeder Bill Angus, spoke at the Cereals seminar: ‘Regenerative agriculture and the future of crop breeding’.