Rural News

Derbyshire Rural Crime Team is a part of a pioneering project that analyses canine DNA from livestock and can be used following dog attacks. 

Cambridgeshire farmer John Pike has shared that he was “badly let down” by Defra’s Farming Recovery Fund, which was supposed to provide financial help to farmers impacted by severe weather in 2024. 

A farming roundtable organised by the NFU has met with food security and rural affairs minister Daniel Zeichner to explain the crushing impact of Defra’s decision to close the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and raise the urgent need for transparency from Defra.

Roger Apsey, who farms in Charlton Musgrove, South Somerset, rescued two-day-old piglets from a fire that broke out in his barn in the middle of the night.

Changes to the way double-cab pickups are treated for some tax purposes are coming in April 2025 – act now to get a Ford Ranger before the tax change.

Royal Three Counties Show, which is set to take place at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern this June, will host a number of special guests and leading voices from the farming and food industries, including Kaleb Cooper, Adam Henson and Matt Tebbutt. 

A working scale model of a diecast Chad Valley Fordson Major tractor with a clockwork mechanism was one of the highlights of the CCM Skipton’s March sale of Border Fine Arts, Beswick ornaments, toys and collectables. 

The Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) is calling on the government to introduce an interim scheme to assist farmers who are not currently enrolled in the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI).

Members of a Cheshire farming family who were finalists for a national award in 2024 have become the latest guests to be featured in a popular new podcast series. 

The Fields to Fork Festival, which aims at celebrating country life and good food, is due to take over Whitebottom Farm in Manchester at the beginning of May. The organisers said that as the event is also backing British farmers, agricultural workers will be able to get discounted tickets. 

Waitrose has announced the launch of a £500,000 fund that aims at supporting British farmers in their transition to net zero emissions. 

The campaign to safeguard the future of a Shropshire organic farm by expanding it as a community hub has topped the £51,000 mark with the support of well-wishers and community shareholders from across the country.