Rural News

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’.

Two British farmers will be trying to break the world’s record in sheep shearing this summer. 

Giant smiles and other funny faces are going to appear in fields as a part of a competition for farmers organised by Carr’s Billington Agriculture to support WellChild, the national charity for seriously ill children. 

Three baby pygmy goats that were stolen from an East Sussex farm have been found. 

A family-run farm from the Ceredigion area of Wales has been found guilty of an environmental crime after the catastrophic collapse of their slurry store polluted local waterways. The farm owners were ordered to pay over £13,000 in fines. 

A Northamptonshire woman has painted her tractor pink to raise money and awareness of a disease that affected her grandparents. 

The latest Farmland Index launched by global property consultancy Knight Frank has revealed that, despite pre-election uncertainty, the average value of bare agricultural land in England and Wales has reached a new record high of £9,335 per acre in the second quarter of 2024.