Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

Sticking to a traditional May cutting date for making first-cut grass silage could be putting winter milk yield at risk, a silage specialist is suggesting. 

The farming community has responded to yesterday’s farmers’ protest in Buckinghamshire.

There is no doubt that 2024 was a challenging year for farming in the UK and, given the added stress farmers are currently experiencing, ensuring farmers and farm workers prioritise both their physical and mental wellbeing has never been more important, said the Farm Safety Foundation team while launching its annual Mind Your Head campaign. 

A Suffolk farmer has been ordered to pay £27,000 after he left dozens of dead sheep on his land for weeks. 

Defra has issued a statement in regard to an “inaccurate media coverage” of foot and mouth disease (FMD) controls with reports that it took six or seven days to implement Defra’s restrictions on German imports.

Two young agriculture students, who may have struggled to get into the sector as they are not from an agricultural background, have received a helping hand from Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper.  

A recent survey of over 100 sheep producers has highlighted that 58% of respondents will consider feeding milk replacer cold to surplus lambs this season and view the method as a viable alternative to feeding warm milk during the busy lambing period.

PM Keir Starmer cut short his visit to a housing development in Buckinghamshire after a dozen tractors appeared at the site.

A 23-year-old farmer suffered fatal head injuries after a tractor tyre exploded while he was inflating it.

PM Keir Starmer claims that farming is ‘top of the governmental agenda’ despite ‘low pecking order’.

Buckinghamshire-based farm H Maskell & Son became the owner of the special edition 60th anniversary New Holland T7 tractor.

Free farm business advice will continue to be offered by Ceres Rural despite the termination of the Future Farm Resilience Fund next month, managing partner and Clarkson’s Farm star Charlie Ireland confirms.