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Open Farm Sunday
Yesterday hundreds of farms throughout the UK open their gates to the general public as they took part in Open Farm Sunday.
Living a dream every day
For 25 year old Holly Morris, four years ago farming seemed like a mere pipe dream. But now she is single handedly running a 200 cow dairy herd in the heart of East Sussex, thanks to a drastic career change.
Women’s Farming Union closes after nearly 40 years
After 37 years The Women's Food and Farming Union voted at a special general meeting yesterday, 12th May 2016 in London, to close the organisation.
Aiming to achieve a lot in a short time
In our latest series on the next generation we meet the dynamic dairymen farming in partnership to secure a future in the industry.
Maintaining historic bloodlines
In our latest series on the next generation we look at how one young farming couple are conserving the historic genetics of four generations of work.
The Lambing Poem by Sheena Blackwell
The baa when it comes is beautiful;
Thin and reedy, ancient and new.
What did the 2001 foot and mouth crisis really teach us?
On 19 February 2001 news spread that a case of foot and mouth disease had been discovered on an Essex farm. Far from isolated, within two weeks livestock from Scotland to Cornwall had been found to have the disease as one of the biggest crises in the history of British agriculture began.
