N.Ireland
Submissions open for global advancement in agri-food contest
Submissions are now open for the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP), an annual initiative from the World Food Prize Foundation....
Rural Life
Rural Life
Farmers to use 'pre-loved' toys to protest inheritance tax
As part of its Stop the Family Farm Tax campaign in protest of changes to inheritance tax, the National Farmers...
Rural Life
Report: 91% of farmers say poor mental health is a problem
A recent study by rural charity, Farm Safety Foundation, also known as Yellow Wellies, revealed that 91% of British farmers...
Rural Life
Significant rise in rural crime costs in Scotland - expert
The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society (NFU Mutual) estimated that the cost of rural crime in Scotland rose by...
Agri Politics
Save British Farming stages tractor rally in London today
Farmers from across the UK will converge on London later today (Monday, February 9), for the ‘Change your tune Starmer’...
Rural Life
European sheep shearing championships coming to Galway
The 2025 European sheep shearing and wool-handling championships will be held at the Mountbellew Mart, Co. Galway over the June...
Rural Life
South African farmers worried as land seizures become legalised
By Chris McCullough Farmers in South Africa say they are deeply worried that a bill regarding land seizures has been...
Rural Life
Police warn of rise in farm machinery fraud crime
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary have issued a warning to farmers to be weary of farm machinery fraud, amid...
Rural Life
Worcestershire farms increasingly blighted by fly-tipping - NFU
Worcestershire farms have become increasingly inundated with illegal fly-tipping activity, which NFU county adviser, Emma Hamer, has claimed, warrants a...
Rural Life
North Wales police arrest 6 men in connection with theft of cattle
North Wales Police have confirmed the arrest of six men in connection with the theft of 14 cattle from a...
Environment
New report highlights human cost of TB on health and wellbeing
A new report commissioned by the Farming Community Network (FCN) has explored the health and wellbeing impacts of bovine tuberculosis...
Rural Life
Storm Éowyn generates red weather warnings in NI and Scotland
The Met Office has recorded gusts of over 90mph in Northern Ireland (NI) and northern Wales this morning (January 24),...
Rural Life
Dangerous driving by hare and deer coursers cause crop damage
Lincolnshire Police have received reports of dangerous driving resulting in “thousands of pounds’ worth” of crop damage to farms in...
Rural Life
UFU publishes tractor rally routes ahead of mass protest
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has published the routes of its upcoming mass tractor rallies, due to take place across...
Rural Life
Wiltshire farmer convicted of animal welfare charge
Wiltshire Council has announced the sentencing of local farmer, Daniel Hayward, who received a 10 month imprisonment, suspended for 12...
Rural Life
New study to focus on health and well-being of women in agriculture
A new study by the University of Exeter’s Centre for Rural Policy Research (CRPR) and The Farming Community Network (FCN),...
Agri-Business
Farmer Network workshops to help young farmers with finances
The Farmer Network has launched a series of workshops, supported by the National Lottery Reaching Communities fund to assist the...
Agri Politics
Gun license fees to rise by 144% to £194
The government have published a new structure for gun license fees, effective from February 5 2025, which will see the...
