Rachel Martin

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Rachel Martin specialises in writing about agri-business, food production and dairying. Previously she worked as a business reporter at one of Northern Ireland’s biggest daily newspapers. In 2017, she was named one of IFAJ's 10 Young Leaders in Agricultural Journalism. She is currently secretary of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists in Northern Ireland. When she’s not writing, Rachel can usually be found in the milking parlour at home in Co. Down with her family's 130 cows.

Sell direct Scotland: Adapting your farm business during the pandemic
Sell direct Scotland: Adapting your farm business during the pandemic

Soil Association Scotland is hosting farmers and growers across Scotland for an online discussion on May 7 about direct selling,...

Devenish signs £30 million agreement with Jamaican poultry firm
Devenish signs £30 million agreement with Jamaican poultry firm

Agri-tech firm Devenish has agreed a 10-year research and development supply agreement worth £30 million with Jamaican poultry producer Caribbean...

Galloway wildfire spans 15km² of gorse, grassland and forest
Galloway wildfire spans 15km² of gorse, grassland and forest

Firefighters have are working to put out the final flames of a large wildfire which spread across 15km² of countryside...

TFA calls for rethink to UK food and environmental security
TFA calls for rethink to UK food and environmental security

The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) is calling for the Government to pause plans for major policy change for food, farming...

Extra month to claim for farm payments in England and Wales
Extra month to claim for farm payments in England and Wales

Farmers and land managers in England and Wales now have until June 15 to apply for the Basic Payment Scheme...

College lecturer shares practical agricultural lessons online
College lecturer shares practical agricultural lessons online

A college lecturer in the Scottish borders has taken even his practical lessons online to stop his students from missing...

150 attend UK-based ‘digital farm walk’
150 attend UK-based ‘digital farm walk’

More than 150 people logged on to the UK’s first-ever ‘digital farm walk’. The eight-hour-long event was run on Wednesday...

Sheep cross Strangford Lough on barge, continuing 200-year-old island farming tradition
Sheep cross Strangford Lough on barge, continuing 200-year-old island farming tradition

We might not have any holidays of our own planned any time soon but 150 sheep got a cruise experience...

2020 Balmoral Show cancelled as NI Covid-19 cases continue to rise
2020 Balmoral Show cancelled as NI Covid-19 cases continue to rise

The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society has announced it will cancel this year’s Balmoral Show as coronavirus (Covid-19) numbers continue to...

Vet offers top tips for social distancing on-farm
Vet offers top tips for social distancing on-farm

Vets are urging farmers to consider how they can apply Government guidance on social distancing when vets are working on...

Calf choked to death on litter in Scotland as lockdown sees fly-tipping soar
Calf choked to death on litter in Scotland as lockdown sees fly-tipping soar

More than 100 fly-tipping incidents are thought to have occurred across Scotland since the start of the lockdown amid reports...

Mike Sheldon reappointed AHDB pork chairman
Mike Sheldon reappointed AHDB pork chairman

UK Ministers have reappointed Mike Sheldon as chairman of AHDB’s pork sector board for a second consecutive term. As part...

Dale Farm appoints new board chairman and vice-chairman
Dale Farm appoints new board chairman and vice-chairman

Dairy cooperative Dale Farm has appointed a new chairman and vice-chairman to its board. It follows the recent retirement of...

Dale Farm appoints new board chairman and vice-chairman
Dale Farm appoints new board chairman and vice-chairman

Dairy cooperative Dale Farm has appointed a new chairman and vice-chairman to its board. It follows the recent retirement of...

Dale Farm appoints new board chairman and vice-chairman
Dale Farm appoints new board chairman and vice-chairman

Dairy cooperative Dale Farm has appointed a new chairman and vice-chairman to its board. It follows the recent retirement of...

Hope for sales boost despite ‘scaled-down’ Great British Beef Week
Hope for sales boost despite ‘scaled-down’ Great British Beef Week

UK farmers are hoping for an increase in local beef sales despite a ‘scaled-down’ version of this year’s Great British...

AHDB launches £100,000 pulled pork campaign
AHDB launches £100,000 pulled pork campaign

AHDB is calling on farmers and the wider agri-food industry to push pulled pork as part of a new £100,000...

Retailers accused of failing to stock British beef during Great British Beef Week
Retailers accused of failing to stock British beef during Great British Beef Week

National Farmers’ Union president Minette Batters has said it is “inexcusable” to see some of the country’s biggest retailers failing...