Staff reporter

Sheep entries at this year’s Royal Bath & West Show have reached record levels, with the very best livestock in the country competing for the Supreme Champion crown.

The RSPCA is reminding dog owners and walkers of the importance of keeping their pets under control to avoid devastating attacks on livestock.

South West Farmer has teamed up with CF Fertilisers to offer one lucky reader ten tonnes of their MultiCut Sulphur in an exclusive competition.

Farmers are no strangers to long-term business planning, so it is perhaps surprising that more of them are not grasping the opportunity that forestry can offer.

A poll by the RSPCA has revealed eight out of ten people want animal welfare laws improved or at least kept the same after we leave the EU.

A new industry-led cattle health programme to evaluate risk and recognise farmers who step up biosecurity to help control bovine TB (bTB), launched recently at a dairy farm in Iron Acton, near Bristol.

In Great Britain alone, there were over 185,010 road traffic injuries and fatalities in the year ending June 2016, yet nearly 139,000 could have been prevented if motorists were less distracted when driving.

Three postgraduate agricultural students from across the UK have been selected as this year’s recipients of The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust’s ‘Centenary Award’.

Flexible farm business tenancies (FBTs) could help both landlords and tenants handle the challenges posed by Brexit, according to the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV).

Primrose Herd, a family-run pork producer based near Redruth, is ended 2016 on a high after receiving three major national awards.