Rural Life
Farm Safety Week: Lanark woman left with broken bones after farm quad accident
Quad bikes can be a useful piece of equipment on any farm, but when not used properly or with the...
Rural Life
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29 farm workers killed on the job over last year
A total of 33 fatal injuries – including 29 farm worker deaths – were recorded on British farms over the...
Rural Life
JLS star lends backing to Farm Safety Week campaign
Former JLS star turned farmer JB Gill who now runs his own farm rearing pigs, turkeys and chickens near Kent,...
Rural Life
Mother speaks out about tragic farm accident to help others recognise the risks
At three years old, Linzi Nelson’s son, Stuart, had his life cut short in a tragic accident on their family...
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,...
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...
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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...
