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Attention all vegetable farmers! I'm reaching out with an exciting opportunity. 🥕 I'm in the process of developing an app tailored for children aged 6 and above, aiming to connect farmers with surplus produce to eager young helpers who can redistribute it within the local community. Before we...

Written by Aisling O'Brien from Agriland Two men were taken to hospital for treatment following an incident involving slurry gas on a farm in Co. Antrim in recent days. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and emergency services, including members of the Northern Ireland Fire and...

A UK Government spokesperson said: “We are not introducing an EU-wide youth mobility scheme (YMS) – free movement within the EU was ended and there are no plans to introduce it. So all those things one enjoyed in either a gap year or as holiday experience have been dropped by HMG. SS

66k members. Safe to assume that many hundreds will be lesbian/gay. We know, for sure, that Muslims are members. Important posts made about keeping abattoirs going. Yet there is a constant dribble of homophobic and racist posts. Often presented as humour, or thinly disguised as political...

The farming partnership has has been renting two fields since 1982 under the old Agricultural Tenancy Act. Our landlord now wants to buy us out. Is the money from the sale going to be taxed as income to the partnership or capital gains to the partners?

The new house is significantly rural and losing power is a real possibility. During Beast for the east, they didn't have any for a week. Got an oil boiler and borehole, young children and looking to ensure we don't have enormously long periods without water, light and heat. Can we put in a wall...

some pretty generous grants about, all seemingly based on reducing out put. we know from sheep and cattle prices, numbers are short, if they were not, prices wouldn't be where they are. the world is getting more dangerous by the day. And yet, politicians here, from all parties, think we can...

Following on from the 'Tractor Chat' video from a few weeks ago, we're looking for some willing volunteers to appear in some similar videos, preferably in Yorkshire for logistical purposes! Please feel free to DM if you prefer or reply in the thread below

What snap bag do you have? Currently use a DeWalt rucksack but thinking of something like the JCB cool bag with plenty of pockets. A rucksack is ok but I m sort of thinking a bag that has stiff sides so my flasks don't fall over possibly with internal pockets. Need to fit two flasks a pop bottle...

My garden is less than 0.5ac of grass so don't want to drop a fortune on a new ride on But i have found a good dealer that has a countax c600h which looks in decent shape My question is though how important is the mileage on a ride on? I can see the mower has been regularly serviced is there...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) has said it has “increasing concerns” for the UK’s rare native pig and poultry breeds following the release of its new watchlist. The conservation charity said it is calling for targeted government action to...

Suggestion in the Times yesterdayday that land bought by Compulsory Purchase should be limited to existing value plus a percentage for disturbance. Suggested that to Farmers would limit value paid to 200% of current land value. This would enable houses to be built very much cheaper when...

Aye up, We have a feedstore business that can have over 100 cars and customers per day visit us. Add to the mix regular deliveries from vans up to artics, forklift trucks and the odd child wandering around whose parents are oblivious, or just as likely the “new” type of parent who lets their...

I was shocked to see world war 3 trending on twitter last night, hadnt given much thought to the israel and HAMAS conflict until i read last night Iran were now involved firing 200 drones/missiles directly at israel and the USA was now involved trying to defend Israel..... this seems to be...

Genuine question, and I know that I'll get a thousand different answers. What is a "standard" working day to you, or your staff, on your farm? How many hours? On a run of the mill day - not lambing/calving/harvest/silage etc For reference, I'm thinking 800ac, mixed beef/sheep/arable, modern...

As a farmers son, almost 40 I do feel stigmatised by my farming friends and family for actually wanting to go home in the evening and weekends to my family. Quite a few of the farmers I know work constantly (12-16) hours a day 7 days a week and do nothing else. Of course they talk they have...

Looks like kicking off on news tonight Don't do what I do, do what I say ,scenario possibly?? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68797258

Father who's 90 complained his phone was dead, checked ,yes dead. Rang Bt got a diagnostic bot. Checked all is well. No fault found , I replied still no phone , an engineer is assigned for next 48 hrs. In the mean time I went to have a look and was astonished to see openreach just down road ...