Category: Dorset Farming

Farming through the squeeze

James Cossins reflects on a typical winter of farming pressures – and why resilience, shared voices and the promise of spring still matter The Christmas...

Mistakes? They’ve made a few!

Can farmers finally move forward, asks Dorset NFU chair Tim Gelfs, or are they still being asked to carry the cost of past mistakes? Over...

Celebrating Dorset, rebuilding trust

In 2018, Love Local Trust Local was created to bring something back into our local community that many felt had gone missing: trust. As producers,...

Our Darkest Hour?

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...

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

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

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...

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Four riders … 25 fences … No regrets.

Fast, fearless and faintly unhinged, team chasing turns sensible riders into adrenaline junkies and horses like The Sass Queen into absolute legends It’s fair to...

Let itbee spring

As spring gathers pace, Dorset’s gardens begin to fill with tawny mining bees, hairy footed flower bees and colourful nomads emerging from winter Bees are...