Rural News

Visitors to this year’s Royal Highland Show are being encouraged to use their time away from the farm to visit RSABI’s health hut.

The Midlands Machinery Show will return later this year for its tenth anniversary, with 150 stands already booked at the Newark Showground in Nottinghamshire. 

Volunteers in the Swiss town of Forel have come up with the idea to use drones to find fawns or young deer nestled beneath tall grasses, preventing farmers from accidentally harming them with heavy agricultural machinery. 

Now the dust has settled on one more Cereals Event, we can all consider the show’s impact on cereal types, technology and, of course, the latest machinery that has been unveiled. Farmers Guide machinery contributor, David Williams, guides you through six key machinery launches from Cereals 2024.

Elite Precast has announced engineering student Will Creed is the winner of its new product competition with Harper Adams.

Fans of the show Fletchers on the Farm will have a chance to feel like real farmers during an event that will be held on Kelvin and Liz Fletcher’s farm later this month. 

The Marches Real Food and Farming Convergence will take place later this year to promote a movement that aims to create a food system across the Marches that is “good for people”. 

Today marks Beer Day Britain. This annual celebration champions Britain’s national alcoholic drink and the hard-working farmers who produce its key ingredients. 

The World Cheese Awards, recognised internationally as the largest ‘cheese-only’ event of its kind, are back for the 36th year. 

In an exciting initiative, Weaving Machinery and Agrii will be combining forces at this year’s Groundswell Event.

The Food Museum in Stowmarket has just announced the birth of a rare Suffolk Punch horse on the site for the first time in 100 years. 

The Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs (SAYFC) has announced that a new Respect campaign will be launched at the Royal Highland Show.