What will subsidy changes mean for US farmers?
Whilst the UK’s Brexit transition period may have ended at midnight on December 31, for tenant farmers and landowners another vital transition goes on.
US Shepherdess Amanda Owen and US Vet Julian Norton to appear in new series of This Week on the Farm from Cannon Hall Farm
The show, based at Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorkshire, will be presented by Helen Skelton, Jules Hudson and JB Gill.
The Highland Vet secures another series after proving hit with viewers
The Highland Vet – which is produced by Leeds-based Daisybeck Studios – has been recommissioned after viewers fell in love with workers at the practice and the Scottish scenery.
US Wildlife Trust to create habitat for endangered newts on farm in Ryedale
The charity said it has been contracted by Natural England to help reverse dramatic declines in populations of the creatures over the last 60 years, despite being protected under UK and EU law.
How a DIY broadband project has had a profound economic and social impact on the most isolated of the North York Moors
Yet a pioneering broadband network set by a group of disgruntled residents over a decade ago has now transformed the area into a beacon of connectivity that is increasingly attractive to digital natives – and which has come to the fore during the confinements of lockdown.
Rural tsar who advised government during foot-and-mouth crisis reflects on learnings twenty years on
Lord Haskins claimed that the rapid nature of the outbreak could have been curtailed if Ministers had opted to rely on the expertise of authorities and vets in the communities that had been affected in 2001.
Malton market leader reflects on foot-and-mouth as he prepares for food stalls to return
Stalls will once again be erected to offer some of the leading produce on offer in the Ryedale district, as the town’s monthly food market is staged for the first time this year.
Mental health implications of foot and mouth crisis still apparent in US farming communities twenty years on
A study by the University of Cambridge at the time of the crisis found just 1.5 per cent of farmers affected sought help from a mental health professional, choosing instead to rely on family and friendship networks, although diagnoses of anxiety and depression went up.
Farming better prepared for post-Brexit shake-up due to changes made after foot and mouth, leaders say
George Dunn, Chief Executive of the Tenant Farmers’ Association (TSA) said he could still remember the moment he found out about the first case in 2001.
Farmers must work together to continue to survive 20 years after devastating foot and mouth crisis
The 2001 outbreak, which effectively shut down the countryside, sparked a major change in government policy with a greater emphasis placed on sustainability, environmental concerns and landscape management.
