Rural Life
Couple awarded $2 billion following Roundup cancer claim
A California jury has awarded more than US$2 billion to a couple who claimed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer...
Rural Life
Rural Life
Police launch appeal for tractor and baler stolen from Hertfordshire site
Police are appealing for witnesses and information following the theft of a tractor and baler, which was stolen during a...
Arable
Producing high-iron wheat in the UK
Researchers at the John Innes Centre in the UK have developed wheat with a high-iron content. The wheat is genetically...
Rural Life
Scottish livestock farmers urged to sign up for Open Farm Sunday
With one month to go until LEAF Open Farm Sunday, Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) is calling on Scottish livestock farmers...
Rural Life
Cows on Tour take to Wales to educate children
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) is one of a number of organisations joining the Cows on Tour...
Agri-Business
Animal feed firm fined £15,000 after unsafe pellet press crushes worker's hand
A Devon animal feed manufacturer has been fined after an employee’s hand was crushed in a pellet press causing life-changing...
N.Ireland
Appeal for information following border cattle theft
Police have appealed for information following the theft of cattle near the Northern Irish border in Co. Armagh in recent...
Rural Life
FUW president to be honoured by Gorsedd of Bards
Welsh farming leader Glyn Roberts will be honoured by the Gorsedd of Bards at this year’s National Eisteddfod. The Farmers’...
Rural Life
Teens arrested for throwing stones at sheep
A number of teenagers have been arrested by police in Hampshire on suspicion of animal cruelty following the injuring of...
Rural Life
Man wanted for farm murder added to Europe’s ‘Most Wanted’ list
A man, who is wanted in connection with the brutal murder of a father at a farm in Cheshire, is...
Rural Life
French school enrolls sheep in final effort to ‘boost numbers’
With numbers of students in a remote French school dropping, locals took ‘an alternative approach’ to sustaining numbers of pupils...
N.Ireland
Police probe digger interference as ‘attempt made to start’
An incident of interference with a digger, in which the machine’s battery was stolen, is believed by police to have...
Rural Life
Royal Bath Show to cut fourth day from 2020 schedule
Organisers of England’s only four-day agricultural event, the Royal Bath & West Show, have decided to cut a day from...
N.Ireland
Appeal for info following collision involving tractor
Police have launched an appeal for information following a collision involving a tractor and a van on a primary route....
Rural Life
Thieves ‘stung’ with decoy in fight on rural crime
Police are stepping up the fight against thieves who target remote farm buildings and equipment in the UK through the...
N.Ireland
Border rustling: ‘They’re taking the cattle in lorry loads’
The president of a farmers’ lobby group in Northern Ireland has said: “It’s not one or two cattle now, they’re...
N.Ireland
Border rustling: ‘They’re taking the cattle in lorry loads’
The president of a farmers’ lobby group in Northern Ireland has said: “It’s not one or two cattle now, they’re...
Rural Life
More than 3,000 young farmers turn up for 'unofficial convention'
The weekend’s unofficial young farmers’ convention appears to have passed off without any significant malice – despite as many as...
