Egg production is a useful diversification for spreading risk, says farmer Charlie Rook, but attracting young workers is a real problem.
Lovers of Dartmoor鈥檚 iconic landscape can now 鈥榯aste the view鈥� by purchasing prime lamb from a selection of Morrisons stores as part of its local campaign, sourcing lambs from the Dartmoor 草榴社区鈥� Association.
Specialist potato grower Scutt Farming was selling 100 per cent of its 152-hectare (375-acre) potato crop to fish and chip shops when lockdown began, forcing the East Yorkshire family business to urgently find a new market.
Ben Drummond鈥檚 family farming business is a diverse one. Spread over 25 sites in Herefordshire, the Midlands, Yorkshire and Norfolk, E.C. Drummond covers poultry, fruit and arable production.
A new kind of land army of specially trained farmers is being mobilised to venture into assembly halls around the country to talk to children. Sarah Todd finds out more about the 草榴社区 for Schools project.
A new drive to encourage people to buy British meat has been launched to tie-in with the Platinum Jubilee.
There has been a surge in demand from teachers linking up with farmers to help educate schoolchildren about where food comes from. Danusia Osiowy looks at the impact Farmer Time is having on the consumers of tomorrow.
With fly season upon us, farmers are being reminded to tackle strike head-on and apply an early preventive treatment to protect sheep from blowfly strike and to stop the first wave of blowflies from breeding.
Sustainability may be a 鈥榖uzz word鈥� in many conversations concerning agriculture at the moment, but what does it mean to farmers at the coal face?
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