Rural Life
Original performances impress judges at NFYFC’s Performing Arts final
An original script and handmade costumes helped Eardisley YFC steal the show at The National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs’...
Rural Life
Rural Life
Nithsdale Monitor Farm opens its gates for Open Farm Sunday
The Marchant family, who run Clonhie Farm, the Nithsdale Monitor farm, near Thornhill, are looking forward to welcoming visitors for...
Environment
Working for waders: Bringing wading birds back to Scottish farmland
Soil Association Scotland is inviting farmers and land managers to a free event at Threepwood Farm, Galashiels, on Thursday, June...
Rural Life
Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers, study suggests
Hunter-gatherers in the Philippines who convert to farming work around 10 hours a week longer than their forager neighbours, a...
Rural Life
Firefighters say Cambridgeshire shed fire was started deliberately
Firefighters have said a blaze which destroyed an estimated 100t of straw and machinery in Cambridgeshire was started deliberately. It...
Rural Life
Moray vet elected as new BVA Scottish branch president
A Moray vet with experience in agricultural animals has been elected as the British Veterinary Association’s new Scottish branch president. Kathleen...
Environment
Scottish Natural Heritage to launch consultation into General Licences
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has announced it will carry out a 12-week consultation into General Licences later this year. A General...
Rural Life
Farmer uses pocket knife to amputate leg following auger incident
A farmer in the US has suffered a traumatic accident recently when he stepped on the opening of a grain...
Agri-Business
New RHET group to take farming message to Argyll And Bute schools
A new group proposed for Argyll and Bute aims to inform and engage with schoolchildren about food and farming. Farmers,...
Agri Politics
FUW urges against Brexit protest votes in EU election
The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has warned that ‘protest votes’ in Thursday’s EU election in favour of hard-line Brexit...
Rural Life
Farmer finds missing calf…buried in badger burrow
A farmer has made quite an unexpected discovery in a badger burrow on his farm when he discovered one of...
N.Ireland
20 Angus-cross calves presented to NI teenagers
Four teams of students from Northern Ireland secondary schools left this year’s Balmoral Show with a very special prize –...
N.Ireland
20 Angus calves presented to NI teenagers
Four teams of students from Northern Ireland secondary schools left this year’s Balmoral Show with a very special prize –...
N.Ireland
Police intervention required for ‘distressed bullock’ on the loose
Police were called to an incident involving a “distressed bullock” on the loose earlier today, Monday, May 20, according to...
N.Ireland
Police intervention required for ‘distressed bullock’ on the loose
Police were called to an incident involving a “distressed bullock” on the loose earlier today, Monday, May 20, according to...
N.Ireland
‘Enquiries ongoing’ into ‘quarrel at Balmoral’
Enquiries are ongoing into an assault that took place at last week’s Balmoral Show, a spokesperson for the Police Service...
N.Ireland
‘Enquiries ongoing’ into ‘quarrel at Balmoral’
Enquiries are ongoing into an assault that took place at last week’s Balmoral Show, a spokesperson for the Police Service...
Rural Life
220 vet nurses welcomed to profession at London Zoo ceremonies
Over 220 new veterinary nurses were welcomed to the profession at a series of ceremonies at the Zoological Society of London....
