Category: Dorset Farming

The importance of the UK’s Livestock system

When a city council takes a plant-based first approach, there are implications far beyond food at city hall, says NFU county advisor Gemma Harvey Around...

Beef is beef. Except when it neighs.

A decade after the horsemeat scandal, how have we ended up in a place with more risks than ever to our food, asks Andrew...

The weight of accusation

Farmer James Cossins looks back at the strain of the last month – caused almost entirely by a complaint about his animal care As I...

There’s been a complaint …

With our national newly-sanitised view of ‘Countryfile-d’ farming, complaints about animal welfare are on the increase, reports Andrew Livingston British winter is synonymous with sideways...

The science of profit

Blandford farmer George Hosford abandons the stats and checks his crystal ball to see if his profit calculations will be accurate this year Below left...

A Dorset motorway?

Could there actually be an economic case for ploughing a motorway through Dorset, asks Andrew Livingston Here’s a horrific notion to get you started for...

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Heroic horsewoman runs the London marathon (aged 77) for the charities that saved her life

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