According to the Farmers Guardian the New Zealand Farmers Federation is campaigning for sheep shearing to be included in future Olympic Games.
Calling for sheep shearing to become an Olympic sport, the federation claims wool clippers are world-class athletes and that sheep shearing is now a bona fide sport which deserves international recognition.
Speaking ahead of the World Shearing Championships, due to be held on New...
Judge Paul Batty QC has added to the growing number of calls for rural crime to be taken more seriously after he heard the trial of four men accused of stealing a mini tractor worth £2,000. At Carlisle Crown Court Judge Batty insisted that a statement from the farmer should be read to the court, even though the prosecuting barrister had not intended to do so.
"The jury should be told of the effect it had," said the judge. "Rural...
Farmers Weekly reports that the egg supplier that provided all of the eggs used by McDonald's in the west of the USA has been dropped after an undercover camera exposed animal cruelty and unsanitary conditions on their farms.
Footage broadcast on ABC News America filmed last summer by animal rights group Mercy for Animals, shows poultry workers at Sparboe Farms bying birds to strings and throwing them around the factory, dragging them...
Hybu Cig Cymru has headed a red meat promotion trade mission and been successful in exporting Welsh Lamb into the Canadian market with high hopes for sales into Sweden and China.
It was revealed at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair that a consignment of Welsh lamb has already been shipped across the Atlantic, with further supplies to follow. This marks a successful attempt to move into the North American market by HCC and several Welsh...
Jim Paice, farming Minister, has defended Government plans for a badger cull in the face of fierce criticism of the proposed policy from Opposition MPs.
The Farmer's Guardian reports that MPs repeatedly clashed over the scientific justification and humaneness of the proposed cull in England during a headted debate in the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday).
Labour MP Mary Glindon, who led the debate, claimed the policy was not...
The largest independent dairy in the North East, Lanchester Dairies, is under new ownership after the company's entire shareholding was acquired by two of its four founders, Billy and Julie Austin.
The Austins are now sole shareholders of the dairy, based in Lanchester, Co Durham, after buying out co-owners Geoff and Sandra Austin, with whom they founded the dairy business as a diversification from the family dairy farm in 1992.
...A farming company in Fife has been fined £20,000 after an employee became entangled in machinery inside a grain reception pit.
Heavy rain at R Todd & Company's Blacketyside Farm had caused the pit to fill with about 12 inches of water. Farmworker Peter Ednie was trying to empty the water when his foot got caught in the unsheathed part of a screw auger inside the pit and although it was switched off it had not been...
THE battle against dwindling bumblebee numbers has been given a £340,000 boost.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) is due to start a three year programme it hopes will halt the decline of some of the UK’s rarest bees.
The Stirling University-based trust was awarded the cash by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and members of the BBCT will work with landowners, farmers, the public and...
The NFU has praised Asda for changing ‘misleading’ labels on packets of its fresh beef.
The supermarket had originally stocked ‘Butchers Selection’ Hereford beef imported from Uruguay on its shelves but had not clearly indicated to consumers that the product was imported from South America.
This led to the NFU publicly challenging the retailer to change the labels to ensure consumers knew what...
If you need a smile have a look at the list of comments unlikely to be heard in a farmhouse during harvest!
Amongst my favourites are:
Can you go to the local machinery dealer and get me a new hose for the tractor. No rush.
Oh, you've hoovered - I better take my boots off.
I was going to combine the lower field tomorrow, but as it's your birthday we'll go out for the day instead....
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