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Category: Dorset Farming

Record agri stands set for G&S

Farmers and rural businesses across Dorset and the South West are preparing for one of the region’s most anticipated agricultural gatherings: the Gillingham &...

No appetite for food security

Seventy years after the end of rationing, politicians still fail to value food security as farms face crippling taxes and chronic under-investment The Fourth of...

The one where she said yes anyway

by Andrew Livingston From dodgy tractor skills to a spitting alpaca, Andrew Livingston’s love story proves Abbotsbury swans aren’t the only ones who mate for...

In the company of bees

From CPR on the kitchen floor to spinning honey in a shed, Stephen Toop found peace, healing and purpose in beekeeping on a Dorset...

Inconclusive is not a diagnosis

Triplets, toast-hungry sheep and maddeningly meaningless TB test results – George Hosford on the exasperating limbo that farmers face Below is a shot of the...

Nature recovery by 2030? Fat chance

Chaotic policy and chronic underfunding – Dorset NFU’s Tim Gelfs calls time on the empty rhetoric behind the Government’s green aims There are two phrases...

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Riding for the Disabled Makes Fun with Horses Accessible for All

The Princess Royal is the President of the Riding for the Disabled, a National Charity, started in 1969, for riding horses and now carriage...

Thank you

Jon Sloper reflects on the deeper power of ‘thank you’ – and why saying thank you may be one of the most human acts...

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