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Best of Welsh food and farming on show at Royal Welsh 2025

The very best of Welsh agriculture, food and culture, will be on display when the Royal Welsh Show opens its gates to the public on Monday 21 July, with Caernarfonshire…

COMMUNITY

How tweed is helping country style enter the mainstream

Rural fashion has long been shaped by the demands of countryside life. Its origins lie in practicality, designed to suit farmers and landworkers braving unpredictable weather and outdoor work. Back…

COMMUNITY

Winter sheep scene wins 'Best of Welsh Farming' photo comp

A wintery sheep farming scene from Radnorshire has won “Best of Welsh Farming” in this year’s NFU Cymru photo competition. More than 200 photos were submitted, but judges were particularly…

COMMUNITY

Pink Ladies’ tractor run breaks record in 21st year

A record 192 tractors took part in the Pink Ladies’ Tractor Road Run on Sunday. Women from across the region drove a 20-mile route through south Norfolk and north Suffolk…

YOUNG FARMERS

Alasdair Boden: Less can be more when it comes to acreage

While they might say it doesn’t matter, I always feel very self-conscious when disclosing the size of our farm. To rip the band aid off, we’re 90ish acres. That’s 90 acres,…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

Photo of the Week: 3 farming generations out grass silaging

This week’s photo of the week was taken at Mawley Town Farm, in South Shropshire, by Rachel Robinson. It shows three generations of the Robinsons ranging from 18 to 80…

YOUNG FARMERS

Alasdair Boden: Less can be more when it comes to acreage

While they might say it doesn’t matter, I always feel very self-conscious when disclosing the size of our farm. To rip the band aid off, we’re 90ish acres. That’s 90 acres,…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

Photo of the Week: 3 farming generations out grass silaging

This week’s photo of the week was taken at Mawley Town Farm, in South Shropshire, by Rachel Robinson. It shows three generations of the Robinsons ranging from 18 to 80…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Why agriculture needs people with neurodivergent strengths

Agriculture needs people with different ways of thinking, and the industry should be encouraging them to work in the sector if it is to thrive. That’s according to Dr Temple…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Charity offers farmer health checks at Great Yorkshire Show

Farmers visiting to the Great Yorkshire Show are set to benefit from a free health MoT, with a registered nurse on hand to carry out basic health screening, including blood…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: The soundtrack of my farming childhood

Make hay while the sun shines, they say. And for the past few weeks, on and off, I’ve been doing just that. What marvellous weather we’ve had for it; I…

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400hp Massey Ferguson 8S tractor tackles rally-raid

After eight days blasting along rough, rock-strewn tracks and scrabbling for grip scaling tall sand dunes, a much-modified farm tractor completed a gruelling rally-raid motorsport event for the first time.…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Ag charities to focus support on finances and succession

Farming charities have sought the views of UK farmers and found financial assistance and succession planning to be the two key areas where farmers would like more support. The Addington…

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YOUNG FARMERS

Alasdair Boden: Less can be more when it comes to acreage

While they might say it doesn’t matter, I always feel very self-conscious when disclosing the size of our farm. To rip the band aid off, we’re 90ish acres. That’s 90 acres,…

YOUNG FARMERS

Kate Tomlinson: 'Husband-finding' chat has echoes of 1921

Knee-deep in powdery snow, my friend and I gazed at the golden glow spreading across the southern Alps before us. Mountain upon mountain rose and fell, the blue sky transforming…

YOUNG FARMERS

Fergus MacGregor: Why agronomists resist yield predictions

My agronomist and I went for a walk around the winter barley, discussing how the year has gone so far and his predictions for harvest. “I think this field might…

YOUNG FARMERS

Rebekah Housden: Solar farms are a threat to farming life

It’s hard to imagine a world without farming – a world without the characters who make our communities or the methods that shape our countryside. Our recent Cumberland Show was…

Will's World

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WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: 10 delicious confessions of a Groundswell goer

The present Mrs Evans and I have just spent two days at Groundswell. It’s my favourite farming event, by some distance, and it’ll take me some time to properly process…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: The soundtrack of my farming childhood

Make hay while the sun shines, they say. And for the past few weeks, on and off, I’ve been doing just that. What marvellous weather we’ve had for it; I…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: A modern farmer's guide to influencing people

It was just a few seconds after getting a face full of wheat chaff and rat shit that I began to question my life choices. I’d done everything I could…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: What if Zeichner and Reed came to our farm?

I’ve been particularly enjoying the videos that shadow justice secretary and wannabe Tory leader Robert Jenrick (patience Bob, you’ll all get a go soon enough) has been posting online lately.…

 
 
 

Health and wellbeing

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HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Farmworker walks length of Scotland for mental health

North East farm worker Duncan Maclellan is walking from John O’Groats to Gretna Green to raise funds for the Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution (Rsabi) and highlight the mental health…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Why agriculture needs people with neurodivergent strengths

Agriculture needs people with different ways of thinking, and the industry should be encouraging them to work in the sector if it is to thrive. That’s according to Dr Temple…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Charity offers farmer health checks at Great Yorkshire Show

Farmers visiting to the Great Yorkshire Show are set to benefit from a free health MoT, with a registered nurse on hand to carry out basic health screening, including blood…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

How to understand and support farmers who have dementia

Several risk factors that can be associated with dementia, such as isolation, hearing loss, and old age, are especially common among farmers. Yet, despite this, the agricultural sector has a…

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FARMLIFE FRAMED

Photo of the Week: New combine cuts early winter barley

One of the first photos in our Harvest 2025 photo gallery was this lovely view of the winter barley harvest at Rigsby Farm in Lincolnshire. While the US was celebrating…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

Photo of the Week: 3 farming generations out grass silaging

This week’s photo of the week was taken at Mawley Town Farm, in South Shropshire, by Rachel Robinson. It shows three generations of the Robinsons ranging from 18 to 80…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

Harvest 2025: Send us your images that capture the season

Harvest is one of the most intense, rewarding, and visually striking times of the farming year, and Farmers Weekly wants to see it through your lens. Our annual Harvest Photography…

FARMLIFE FRAMED

Photo of the Week: Orphaned Texel thrives in Kent flock

This week's photo of the week was taken by Georgia Brown in Tenterden, Kent. Although originally rejected by her mother, the orphaned lamb is clearly thriving now in the care…