Keen-eyed, positive farmers will be spotting the stretch in the days. It might only be a few extra minutes of daylight, but we have to grab any positivity we can to kick start 2025 into gear. The ...

Some 1452 sheep forward at Craig Wilson’s sale saw 1152 lambs average 329p per kg. Texels led the trade selling to £191 and 357p from Messrs Young, Castle Mains and Kilkerran Estate respectively. Cast ...

The Scottish farmland market in 2024 could be described as lacklustre compared to other years, according to Savills. Despite an increase in marketed farmland, the number of units offered publicly for ...

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Nigel Farage has said “the gloves are off” in the next election bout for Kemi Badenoch’s Essex constituency, after the Tory leader claimed Reform UK’s online membership counter was fake. The Reform UK ...

Based in St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, AB Wight Engineering has been serving its loyal customer base for a decade. A family affair, the business is run by brothers Andrew and Garry Wight.

The five candidates who will contest the positions of president and vice president at the Union’s AGM in Glasgow on Friday, February 7, 2025 are preparing to tour the country in January. The two ...

The start of a New Year always holds the promise of renewed potential, subject to people and organisations working together, and the nation’s rules and regulations being geared to deliver maximum ...

The UK has secured geographical indication (GI) status for 39 additional British food and drink products in Japan. Renowned products such as Ayrshire new potatoes, Orkney beef and Carmarthen ham will ...

Farm technologies have moved on tremendously in the last 20 years. Originally developed with a dairy focus, applications are now more widely available for beef and sheep enterprises. Basic heat ...

As we move towards the end of 2024, the year of elections, there is continuing war and strife in several parts of the globe. In Ukraine we have passed the unenviable milestone of 1000 days of war. A ...

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