Bird Tales: From French Bresse to English Partridge
We may have gone abit hatching crazy but what else do we have to do? Will our English Partridges survive?
We may have gone abit hatching crazy but what else do we have to do? Will our English Partridges survive?
Farming is a numbers game. It always has been. The number of acres, the size of the herd or flock, the weight of the crop, the yield of the harvest and, crucially, the balance in the bank at the end of the year.
Beef cattle numbers in Scotland have been heading in the wrong direction for years - but a bold new campaign is aiming to inject some much-needed confidence and map out a path to get those numbers back on track.
A "Chinese Virus" is rampant, and no-one knows how to stop it
Politically, the left has the monopoly on environment and green policy, but is there room for a more centrist approach to nature?
Join Scribehound Countryside's team of leading rural voices to discuss the way rural issues are portrayed in the wider media.
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An extract from my new book Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside, which explores land access and the impact of humans on the countryside
Life in recent months has changed dramatically and it has led me on a journey of self discovery, questioning my own mental health and giving me a very different perspective on the burden that we as farmers continue to take on.
There is utter madness afoot in East Anglia. The proposed pylon line that will march through the rural heartland of Britain's bread basket is both unnecessary and avoidable.
Despite months of sustained media coverage of the protests against the Government’s changes to Inheritance Tax, some farmers think they deserve more, so plonked their tractors outside a BBC building to demand it. Bad idea and here's why...
Look, I've been thinking too much about chalk.