The Roe Boom: making better use of local deer

Roe deer have become super-abundant in Galloway - recreational stalkers like me can afford to be bullish and make better use of these animals, even if only to prevent them from being wasted.

The Devil Bird: How one British seabird is bucking the dismal trend

Just occasionally, humans really can do the right thing

The big biodiversity con

A heist is taking place under our eyes, and nobody has called for police back-up. The government and the conservation industry are on a seven-year mission to steal the countryside.

We must reset the rural economy to deliver nature recovery

The essential link between food security and nature recovery

Stubble Larks and Dirty Dunnocks

Fighting, sex and transects...it all goes on in the stubbles of Suffolk.

It's a Punjabi Farm, Innit

Could a new film about a Punjabi-Brummie family growing strawberries in Worcestershire become the next Clarkson's Farm?

What Links Farmland Birds and the English Civil War?

Time spent quietly in the countryside and letting nature come to you is never wasted

Does the UK's firearms licensing system need reform?

The Government is once again consulting on reform to shotgun licensing. Having been in Hungerford at the time of the 1987 massacre, and having had skin in the firearms licensing game ever since, I take a look at how we got here.

Tales of new sturdy country fences - and those inconvenienced by them

In a shock development, I've found myself praising one aspect of regenerative farming - although probably not for the reasons 'regenners' might think. It's a start, I suppose...

Rooted in Reality: We Must Break The Echo Chamber of Farming Events

With woke agendas, narrow opinions and frankly people underserving of their platform, our once grass-root farming conferences have become a melting pot of vacuous ideology.

The NHS or Farmers: The Battle for Public Support

Who would you choose, the NHS or farmers?

Meet Jim: The Heart and Soul of Point-to-Point Racing

By anyone’s reckoning, Jim Squires (pictured with partner Judith and jockey Alex Edwards - photo by Carl Evans) is one of the people who contributes most to the sport of point-to-pointing and one of its unsung heroes.