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HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Market health hub brings NHS care closer to farmers

More than 700 farmers and rural residents have accessed healthcare through a market-based health hub in Devon, helping improve access to services for hard-to-reach communities. The Market Health Hub, based…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Farmer adapts to life with stage 4 kidney disease

A Welsh hill farmer has described how adapting her working day, accepting help and listening to her body has enabled her to continue farming despite living with stage 4 chronic…

YOUNG FARMERS

Georgina Mitchell-Jones: Double life of a farmer’s daughter

Whenever I mention in my 9-5 office job that I’m a farmer’s daughter, the reaction is almost always the same. An initial taken aback expression, followed by a curious: “Oh,…

COMMUNITY

Photos: Thame Sheep Fair pulls in the crowds

Buyers and sellers flocked to the first day of the annual Shearwell Thame Summer Sheep Fair on Thursday (6 August), when almost 7,000 White Faced cross and Suffolk cross theaves…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: From pitch hero to grass zero all too quickly

First of all, a sincere apology. Some weeks back, I wrote about the tremendous late spring we’d had, and the fact that we had more grass than you can shake…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

From tragedy to hope: 10 years of the DPJ Foundation

When Emma O’Sullivan lost her husband Daniel to suicide in 2016, she was determined no other farming family should face the same ordeal without support.  Ten years later, the charity…

YOUNG FARMERS

Sunflowers unlock tourism potential on family farm

A farmer’s son has established a pick-your-own sunflower diversification on the family farm, inspired by his school’s vocational learning course in tourism. Fifteen-year-old William Neave, whose family farm at East…

YOUNG FARMERS

Alice Littlewood: What I learned about farming from Peru

I’m writing this in a lull from my project work in a small camp in the Andes of Peru, a few hours out from Cusco. The sky is clear and,…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Australian farmers front new mental health campaign

Farmers speaking openly about depression, grief and isolation are at the heart of a new Australian campaign that could offer lessons for UK agriculture. The five-part video series, developed by…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Female farmers invited to shape wellbeing project

Women farmers in Wales are being encouraged to help shape a new wellbeing project exploring how creative activities can strengthen social connections across the farming community. Researchers are keen to…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: UK farming should be more Accrington Stanley

There’s nothing like having to sit through tedious adverts on commercial TV stations to make you appreciate the BBC. Does anyone buy the products they’re peddling? If anything, the majority…

YOUNG FARMERS

Cornish schoolboy launches dairy business aged 13

A Cornish teenager has turned his ambition of becoming a dairy farmer into reality by launching his own milk business at the age of 13. Charlie Sawle, from St Agnes,…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

7 glorious Harvest Photo Competition entries so far

Photos are flying in for this year’s Farmers Weekly harvest photo competition, in what is an extremely dry harvest. With more than 300 uploads to the gallery so far, there’s plenty of…

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YOUNG FARMERS

Georgina Mitchell-Jones: Double life of a farmer’s daughter

Whenever I mention in my 9-5 office job that I’m a farmer’s daughter, the reaction is almost always the same. An initial taken aback expression, followed by a curious: “Oh,…

YOUNG FARMERS

Sunflowers unlock tourism potential on family farm

A farmer’s son has established a pick-your-own sunflower diversification on the family farm, inspired by his school’s vocational learning course in tourism. Fifteen-year-old William Neave, whose family farm at East…

YOUNG FARMERS

Alice Littlewood: What I learned about farming from Peru

I’m writing this in a lull from my project work in a small camp in the Andes of Peru, a few hours out from Cusco. The sky is clear and,…

YOUNG FARMERS

Cornish schoolboy launches dairy business aged 13

A Cornish teenager has turned his ambition of becoming a dairy farmer into reality by launching his own milk business at the age of 13. Charlie Sawle, from St Agnes,…

BRITAIN'S FITTEST FARMER

Britain’s Fittest Farmer: Mind and muscle put to the test

The finalists for Britain’s Fittest Farmer are preparing for the last leg of the competition and, as every year, that means they will be judged on more than physical ability.  …

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Will's World: Tractors, tears and a whole lot of trouble

Never work with children or animals, the American comedian WC Fields once said. As someone who currently works with both on a daily basis, I heartily agree with the man.…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: From pitch hero to grass zero all too quickly

First of all, a sincere apology. Some weeks back, I wrote about the tremendous late spring we’d had, and the fact that we had more grass than you can shake…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: UK farming should be more Accrington Stanley

There’s nothing like having to sit through tedious adverts on commercial TV stations to make you appreciate the BBC. Does anyone buy the products they’re peddling? If anything, the majority…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: A killer location for a farming proposal

Hopeless old romantic that I am, I very much enjoy reading about fellow farmers' elaborate wedding proposal efforts. Love must be in the air, because there’s been a plethora of…

 
 
 

Health and wellbeing

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HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Market health hub brings NHS care closer to farmers

More than 700 farmers and rural residents have accessed healthcare through a market-based health hub in Devon, helping improve access to services for hard-to-reach communities. The Market Health Hub, based…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Farmer adapts to life with stage 4 kidney disease

A Welsh hill farmer has described how adapting her working day, accepting help and listening to her body has enabled her to continue farming despite living with stage 4 chronic…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

From tragedy to hope: 10 years of the DPJ Foundation

When Emma O’Sullivan lost her husband Daniel to suicide in 2016, she was determined no other farming family should face the same ordeal without support.  Ten years later, the charity…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Health Hub helps farmers prioritise their wellbeing

Farmers are notoriously bad at seeking help with their health – and rural communities are disadvantaged by poor access to services. Now, the new Exmoor Rural Health Hub (ERHH) at…

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FARMLIFE FRAMED

7 glorious Harvest Photo Competition entries so far

Photos are flying in for this year’s Farmers Weekly harvest photo competition, in what is an extremely dry harvest. With more than 300 uploads to the gallery so far, there’s plenty of…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

Photo of the Week: Dolly and Annie make winning team

This week’s Photo of the Week features Dolly McNamara, aged eight, winning first prize in the young handler contest at the Essex Young Farmers Show with her Limousin cow Annie.…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

Photo of the Week: Yarrow the bull chillin' in the sunshine

This week's photo was submitted by Darren Becskehazy, head of cows at Herring Farm in the Lincolnshire Wolds. It shows Yarrow, a Lincoln Red bull – one of the 80-strong…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

Photo of the Week: Why have one when you can have two...

This week’s Photo of the Week is from contractor Clare Sansum of AG Sansum & Sons Ltd.  It shows the contractors silaging at Cattle Country Farm Park, an open farm…