Category: Dorset Farming

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...

Rethinking dairy in life after TB

TB relief at Rawston, but falling milk prices, ageing kit and new rules force a decisive reset for the family business, writes James Cossins The...

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Rodney’s rough ride

This month, Sally Cooper shares Rodney’s recent medical saga, with a stunningly swift, unexpected diagnosis and treatment This month I was contemplating what to write...

Victor Ernest Eason

30 March 1938 - 01 April 2026 EASON - Victor Ernest 1st April aged 88. Beloved husband of Valerie. Adored father, step-father, grandfather and great...

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