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Just had the route to change. Future Scottish Gov. intentions for Farming. The fine print to follow after a few months and probably a change of Scottish Government.

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...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland North Wales Police has appealed for information after a German Shepherd dog is believed to have attacked and killed a sheep in Flintshire. The German Shepherd dog was seen to be roaming the area of Gwespyr, Llanasa, from Thursday, April 11, until...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Dorset Police’s rural crime team has recovered a stolen lamb that had been “sheepnapped” from a field in the area of Sturminster Newton. One person is in custody for theft and for causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. Officers...

Anyone ever had wire break like this before? Had this in 2 spots were barb and rylock split, along with a few spots where the bottom 2 wires are broken. Has it been cut or is it possible for it to break like that?

Reports the 970 acre 'Sibleyback farm' on Bodmin has been sold to rewilders....£10 million to turn it into native woodland and bog. Where does this all end?

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A rural officer for West Mercia Police has said recent livestock thefts could be linked to the illegal sale of meat on the black market. Rural and business crime officer for North Worcestershire, Sarah Sceats, urged farmers in Worcestershire to...

wow 54 million in 4 years,that’s just the ones they know about.Yet again this governments staff not doing their job.Yet genuine claimants seem to be put though hell ,

Just wondering how many of my fellow teuchters know about this? Wood is our only source of heat and hot water. Any renovations would include same. Plus oil. A heat pump wouldn't keep the bathroom warm, much less the whole house. I used to live near Memphis; they tried them there and it didn't...

I have started receiving voicemails supposedly from Microsoft, I am assuming they are phishing emails so I just delete them as I see them . Am I correct and are you receiving them?

I thought that by us leaving the EU we here in the UK, would shape/create a new agriculture/horticulture support package for food production? All i see thats happened is that large blocks of productive land are by new "incentives" leaving abandoning, stopping food production, that and the...

Comments made, a couple of years ago, by criminologist Dr Kate Tudor, who has a particular interest in rural crime. Below the video is the publication of some research she carried out, in to rural crime. A little bit of a long read, but interesting to go through bit by bit when having a brew...

Just phoning a contractor, he said, got to go, Police have just arrived, will call again when they have gone. He called back, umbilical spreading slurry, someone called the police to say, slurry being pumped into the river. Police had to attend to check. What has happened to this country, when...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Dorset Police rural crime team has recovered two stolen blue texel lambs in rural Bridport. A vehicle suspected to have been used to carry out the theft of the texel lambs has been seized, and one male is “currently behind baaas”, the rural...

In the past 2 weeks alone I've lost a good part time job at local distillery because of SEPA rules on the spreading of Pot Ale on land. It was a well paying job 2 shifts a week for me giving a welcome boost to my income. Few days later muirburn has effectively been banned in Scotland although...

It will be interesting to see if Reform UK really does have some support and, if so, how much. I'll make it possible to change votes as the facts in the news change...

Come around again??? https://www.southwalescommissioner.org.uk/

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/scotland-new-calving-interval-of-410-days-added-to-ssbss.407024/ Current Scottish calving index figures

Dear Farming Forum! I hope this thread finds you well. I'm Geena - an MA Television Journalism student at City, University of London. I'm working on a student documentary which will examine whether England should adopt Scottish-style full right-to-roam laws. Scotland, unlike England, gives the...

With the cut off date looming we have managed to spread most of the urea in store however we have a bit left that was destined for sp crops post emergence .We have a field of sp barley to go in and another of failed/drowned wheat to replace ,some has been ploughed and some cultivated earlier...