Rural News

After the withdrawal of BPS, George Kershaw introduced British White cattle to his farm, as part of their Countryside Stewardship scheme.

APF 2024 will take place at Ragley Estate, Warwickshire, on 19th–21st September.

Family has paid tributes to a 65-year-old Welsh farmer who tragically died in a quadbike accident. 

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

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. 

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.