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  • Good life to the end

    MEAT from the idyllic farm featured on BBC's Spring Watch is now available to the restaurant and hotel trade. Fishleigh Estate in Devon sprang to life on the small screen again last month as the chosen location for the TV wildlife event. The Devon estate

  • Water booklet can help farmers save money

    FARMERS can find out how to save money and the environment with an updated version of a water management guide. Waterwise on the Farm gives farmers and land managers comprehensive information on preventing agricultural water pollution. The free booklet

  • Maize a little sickly as nature takes its course

    WITH April proving to be a rather glorious month, most of the forage maize was drilled about a fortnight earlier than usual with about 90 per cent in the ground by the end of the month. Sometimes, however, nature taps us on the shoulder and reminds us

  • Helston farmer wins award

    Twentytwo-year-old Stuart Oates from St Martin, Helston has been named Massey Ferguson Young Farmer of the Year. The farm machinery company selected Stuart as the winner from an international list of entries in this award designed to showcase the talents

  • Royal show to close early

    The Royal Show at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire is to finish a day early but organisers are to continue to run the horse event to make sure Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) qualifying rounds can be completed. The decision, taken by the honorary show director

  • Royal Show to close early

    The Royal Show at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire is to finish a day early but organisers are to continue to run the horse event to make sure Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) qualifying rounds can be completed. The decision, taken by the honorary show director

  • Local action needed on TB

    A WEST country MP has criticised the government for not coming up with a national solution to Bovine TB in cattle. Following publication of the Independent Scientific Group's report on Bovine TB Andrew George, MP for the West Cornwall constituency of