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Dorset Farming

Batters review dismantles the ‘0.6% myth’ and warns farming is being priced out of survival

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Minette Batters’ long-awaited Farming Profitability Review, published today, delivers a forensic challenge to one of the most persistent assumptions in Whitehall: that farming is...

Black Pug Books

‘I won’t give up’: Local world champion devastated by theft of race-winning bike

Nina May June Bolam nee Weed

Castle Cary Community Choir Christmas Concert (all the C’s including Carols!

equestrian

Equestrian Dorset

Lessons from a yearling (pt2)

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In the second part of her series, Tamsin Doar is heading out for a mooch, cautiously trying out loading, and surpassing all expectations at...
Equestrian Dorset

W is for Winter…

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Jess Rimmer leans into winter training, a new horse and an alphabet game that somehow ends in Tenerife sunshine and bacon turnovers OK. It’s officially...

November hot streak

Festive fun and top-class racing this winter at Wincanton Racecourse!

DORSET HISTORY

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Wildlife & farming

Our Darkest Hour?

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As Westminster turns a blind eye to rural Britain, NFU chairman Tim Gelfs argues that farmers must take their case to the people One of...

A splash of yellow in December

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Jane Adams enjoys her chance meetings with a grey wagtail, Wimborne’s winter dancer There’s a bird I always associate with the colder months. I shouldn’t,...

George Hosford’s had enough – and so has the Grumbler

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What happens when the people who own the land stop caring about it? In this final episode of the year, George Hosford returns with...

Ploughing up old problems – and new ones

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George Hosford muses on profit-driven big agribusiness, vicious mink and the rediscovered therapy of a day behind the plough A letter landed in my lap...

Dorset Food & drink

Dorset community news

The BV’s Christmas Quiz 2025

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This year, we’re feasting our way around the globe. Every question is a Christmas dish from somewhere in the world – don’t worry, it’s...

A View From the Saddle: two riders, one ridiculous adventure

Pan di Higo

Reconnecting with food, farming, and the land

Spiced Pumpkin Cornbread

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December’s BV – and a formal apology from the BV Team.

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After a year-long internal review, we regret to report that The BV has repeatedly caused unexpectedly high levels of enthusiasm across rural Dorset. Findings include: •...
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A COUNTRY LIVING

A Country Living

Flying in the fear factor

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Armed with hawks, falcons and fierce dedication, Dorset’s Ryan Ashworth blends old-world falconry with modern pest control – and finds wild beauty The poet WB...
A Country Living

Dorset’s very own Batman

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Zoologist Steve Masters is helping Dorset’s bats fight back against their spooky reputation – with harp traps and a passion for hand-winged wonders Blood-sucking fiends...

Core values

Voice of the showground

Bud, bloom, berry … repeat

In the company of bees

dorset walks

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