Category: Dorset Farming

Consumers need informed assurance

Farm assurance schemes need to stand up for our higher standards and tell consumers WHY to British food, says the NFU’s Tim Gelfs Farm assurance...

A £40k cultivator, broken incentives and a hazel hedge

Eye-watering machinery costs and disappearing hedgerow incentives: this spring’s progress comes with familiar frustrations, writes George Hosford Spring sowing has proceeded at pace over the...

Celebrating Dorset, rebuilding trust

We have just two months left – the Love Local, Trust Local 2026 Awards close at the end of May! What a wonderful year...

After the rain

A very long winter has suddenly been interrupted by a lovely weather interlude, allowing some much-needed work to be done on farms across the...

Two Dorset farmers get the Golden Buzzer

When Jeremy Clarkson’s Farmers’ Choir hit the Golden Buzzer, two Dorset voices were at the heart of a performance carrying more than harmony The Hawkstone...

Waiting for the shelves to empty

From fragile supply chains to frozen farm budgets, Tim Gelfs says NFU conference laid bare the gap between rhetoric and delivery Fresh back from NFU...

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This is your sign to enter

Everything you need to know about veteran showing – as told by someone towed round the ring by a veteran with delusions of youth...