Rural News

Our Farm in the Dales star, Nicola Baker, has just published her first children’s book with the goal of “sparking passion for farming and the countryside” in younger generations.

Musician, TV personality and celebrity MasterChef finalist Danny Jones has joined forces with AHDB to promote how a balanced diet of meat and dairy is key to a healthy lifestyle.

A Norfolk whisky has been named the world’s best malt out of 1,500 whiskies from over 40 countries.

Animal rights protesters, Pignorant, have infiltrated Cranswick Country Foods’ pig processing plant in Watton, Norfolk. 

Millford Farm and Knaplock Poultry Farm in Somerset have been put on the market for almost £5,000,000. 

New rules have just been introduced to reinvest money raised from fixed penalty notices for fly-tipping and littering. The funds are going to be spent on local clean-up activities. 

Volunteers are needed to help sort artificial intelligence data to track the declining UK hedgehog population. 

Rural road safety campaigner NFU Mutual is urging farmers to avoid common hazards while driving through rural areas this Easter. 

Relentless wet weather gave way to a few drier days in mid-March, creating workable conditions for an Oliver Landpower Ltd demonstration of Sumo drills and cultivators, and JCB Fastracs. David Williams was there.

A well-known English actor and farmer, Kelvin Fletcher, invites the public for an “unforgettable Easter celebration” on his farm. 

Farming groups have expressed relief that the government has listened to the sector’s growing fears that environmental schemes could pose a threat to food security.

The Newt in Somerset, a part of the Newt Estate, which was recently named one of the best boutique hotels in the world, took on a challenge to supply its restaurants with ingredients grown, foraged and reared on the site. The processing of its own heritage wheat will enable home-grown flour to become a valuable additional ingredient.