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The cruellest month!

January is traditionally bleak but we’ve got a lot to celebrate and farmers are working hard for the good of us all, explains Louise...

Four legs bad, spring crops good | Voice of a Farmer

We had a terrible Christmas with the animals, but the spring crops are looking good, hopes James Cossins I think we will be pleased to...

Our Christmas lamb nativity disaster! | Farm Tales

It’s not the greatest idea to include farm stock with your church nativity play, explains Andrew Livingstone. With this being the month of good tidings...

Working on the solutions

In last month’s column, Louise Stratton was considering how farming is part of the solution to climate change; this month she muses on how...

My least favourite month is over | Voice of a Farmer

Farmers are working together to improve the habitat and increase quality food production, but we can’t be undermined by lower standard imports, argues James...

Here comes trouble | Farm tales

Ever since Brexit was confirmed, Britain has been slowly careering toward a meaty iceberg, ominously bobbing in the sea. The Government, for now, has...

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That’s not a lion, it’s a Lexus

Ah, the sweet sound of spring in North Dorset: birdsong, lambs bleating, engines revving … and my horse doing the fancy sideways samba because...

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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