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Category: Dorset Farming

Urgent action needed to protect UK’s food supply

New report highlights the urgent challenges in UK food supply, with global shocks and rising costs, says county advisor Gemma Harvey On 28th July, the...

It’s a dodgy sort of harvest

Harvesting has finally started at Rawston Farm, but James Cossins admits it’s a stop/start affair this year, thanks to the weather Eventually harvest started in...

A Cry for fairness

Is farming at a crossroads? Andrew Livingston looks at the unfair struggle between agriculture and supermarkets When I first started my column with the BV...

Farm Required

Merry Moos Farm Project is a social enterprise trading as a community interest company. Our aim is to establish a working farm and animal...

Open Farm Sunday was a fabulous day out

Barbara Cossins, founder of Love Local Trust Local, was thrilled with the success of Open Farm Sunday – but there is work still to...

‘No one should feel alone’

The NFU used its summer reception to shine a spotlight on the unique pressures on rural mental health, says county advisor Gemma Harvey The NFU...

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Two big competitions for Team Bartlett, with lessons learned

New boy Equador MW showed his Aston Martin tendencies but Freebie slowed to miss out on his second International win, says Toots Bartlett Team Bartlett...

Blacksmith’s wife dies in her chair

This month Barry Cuff has chosen a 1906 postcard of the Green Dragon in Piddletrenthide. To accompany it we found a news story from...

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