Rural Life
£4.5 million Crown Estate investment to support Scottish farm tenants
Crown Estate Scotland is investing £4.5 million over two years in a range of activity on its four rural estates,...
Rural Life
Dairy
First ever Louise Hartley Award winner to tour West Wales
Holstein Young Breeders (HYB) is thrilled to be sending one of its members to West Wales for a dairy trip...
Rural Life
Farm Safety Week: How to plan a safe school visit
Farms and crofts can often be dangerous places for children but, according to the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET), with...
Rural Life
Researcher's pictures show frightening extent of 6,400ac moor fire
Pictures taken by a scientist on board a research aircraft show the full extent of the devastation caused by the...
Rural Life
'Quick thinking' ploughing halts crop fires across England
Fire crews and farmers worked together over the weekend to stop the spread of fires across fields of standing crops....
Rural Life
Farm Safety Week: Aberdeen farmer tells how kick left his ligaments 'like broken cables'
As this year’s Farm Safety Week gets underway from Monday, July 16 until Friday, July 20, farmers from across Scotland...
Machinery
1989 Land Rover given a ‘new lease of life’
An “old classic” Land Rover 90 has been given a “dramatic new lease of life” in Killarney, for the benefit...
Agri-Business
'Sentences for rural crime must act as a deterrent'
The NFU raised its concerns with the solicitor general that the sentences given for rural crime do not act as a strong...
Rural Life
Humorous new book raises vital funds for farming charity
An unconventional children’s book bringing the absurd and the wonderful together hopes to raise charity funds for displaced UK farming families....
N.Ireland
Fire threats sweep the country once more
Gorse fires have been wreaking havoc in Co. Wicklow today, while elsewhere in the country a farm fire which could...
Agri-Business
Just 2 out of every 5 English farm managers have had formal training
Less than 40% of farm managers in England have any formal agricultural training, according to a Government survey published this...
Rural Life
Letter opposing game shooting leaves Welsh Government 'serious questions to answer'
In a dramatic end to the widely publicised Natural Resource Wales (NRW) review of the use of firearms on land...
Rural Life
Last chance to apply for 2019 Nuffield Farming Scholarship
t’s less than three weeks until the July 31 deadline for Nuffield Farming Scholarship applications. Applicants are urged to finalise...
Agri Politics
UK farming unions give their take on Government's Brexit white paper
The presidents of four of the UK’s major farming unions have came together to issue a joint statement following the...
N.Ireland
‘Big Night with Derek Ryan’ cattle market gig to go ahead
Organisers have confirmed this weekend’s Big Night with Derek Ryan gig at Ballymena Cattle Market will still go ahead. Members...
Rural Life
Survey launched to reveal true extent of rural online bullying
The Countryside Alliance has launched a survey aiming to reveal the true extent of the barrage of online abuse facing...
Rural Life
What's happening at the FUW Royal Welsh Show stand this year?
The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) is looking forward to exploring and discussing the most important issues facing the farming...
Agri-Business
NFU Cymru to stage ‘Brexit and Our Land’ consultation briefing events
National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Cymru is urging farmers across Wales to make their voices heard in the Welsh Government’s ‘Brexit...
