1+ week, 2+ day ago   (388+ words) Rain is still nowhere to be seen. We’ve had barely a drop since mid-June, and the second-cut aftermaths haven’t come back at all. The forecast doesn’t show much hope for the next few weeks either. The dry spell did at…...

3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (601+ words) The year 2019 seems an age ago, but it was a time with an intense focus on the debate around climate change and net-zero carbon emissions, which became a priority for government ministers. I was at the NFU conference that year…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (407+ words) August is the time of year when farming in Ayrshire becomes less about careful planning and more about staring at weather apps until one eventually tells you what you want to hear. Harvest is under way at Buntonhill with winter…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1862+ words) Salty sea air and cow slurry make for a challenging machine environment, as Farmers Weekly discovers on a shed tour at Chris Knowles’s Trink Farm, near St Ives, Cornwall. Trink Farm, St Ives, Cornwall See also: Cornish contractor diversifies with…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (474+ words) Driving with the family in France recently I passed a farmer repairing a roof from a ladder raised up in a tractor front loader bucket. My immediate reaction was: He’s going to kill himself. He didn’t, and it got me…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1094+ words) A progressive beef and sheep farmer in the Scottish Borders served notice to vacate the family farm after 32 years has succeeded in rebuilding a profitable business. Determined it would not finish his career in farming, Jim Logan kept faith that…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (414+ words) Arla is targeting more than 100 schools and 100,000 young people in a drive to tackle a persistent skills gap in British dairy farming. The dairy cooperative’s new outreach programme aims to showcase the breadth of careers across modern farming and the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (399+ words) In my last article, I commented how great our spring grass growth had been. Silage crops were abundant and we were set up for a fruitful grazing season. Well, how wrong was I? There followed an extremely hot and dry…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (411+ words) They say you should be able to leave your business without worrying for it to be successful. I’m recently back from 19 days in Australia and New Zealand, and things have never looked better. We’ve had our best weaning weights yet,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1741+ words) This year’s finalists are profitable block-calving herds with a good work/life balance and high standards in staff management. See also: FW Awards: Meet the 2026 Poultry Farmer of the Year finalists Julian Courtier and his wife Mary © Emily Fleur Vision,…...