The farming industry has rejected claims that growers are chiefly responsible for a major decline in UK butterfly numbers ...

British farmers are being undermined due to a lowering of pesticide standards on foreign food imports, according to analysis ...

Farmers buying sheep at some Scottish marts can pay £1.20 a head to have the animals dipped to prevent scab spreading to ...

The Welsh Conservatives have cautiously welcomed the formation of an advisory group aimed at tackling bovine tuberculosis (TB ...

Commercial prime lamb and breeding sheep producers were out in force last week to lift the famous Kelso tup sale average up ...

Three varied producers – an outdoor breeding unit, a tented nursery and an indoor finisher – all displaying sound business ...

Two large farms with a combined area of more than 2,300 acres will be a good test of the market in the south of England.

The annual calendar of spring block calving is very straightforward: calve, graze, breed, silage, dry, house and repeat.

I don’t subscribe to the “everything was better in the good old days” way of thinking, though I realise it’s easy to fall ...

About three or four times a year I get collared by a disgruntled livestock farmer who asks: “Why do you keep putting unaffordable tractors on the front ...

Pouring insecticide or repellent on livestock, for midge control, will not decrease the chance of bluetongue virus ...

Wiltshire mixed farmer Richard Gantlett has been using the power of biodynamic farming to grow crops completely free of ...