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The idea that fresh air is good for you is nothing new, but evidence is mounting of a powerful link between spending time in nature and our mental health.

Outdoor activity packages recently became part of the offering for guests staying in one Trudi Cueto and Eric Linklaters three holiday cottages on the mixed family farm in East Lothian.

Outdoor activity packages recently became part of the offering for guests staying in one Trudi Cueto and Eric Linklater’s three holiday cottages on the mixed family farm in East Lothian.

The pandemic has given people a greater appreciation of the landscapes farmers provide, with 71 per cent of people saying they feel fortunate to be able to access the British countryside a new survey has found.

Pasture management is an important, although often under-utilised, element of sustainable parasite control.

Supporting progression and career opportunities for women in the meat and farming industry, in the first of a series of articles looking at the positive changes and initiatives happening across the farming sectors, Danusia Osiowy finds out more about the global networking group which is driving transformation of the industry’s image.

Back for 2021, farming’s biggest online event #Farm24, in partnership with Morrisons, will celebrate British farming; sharing the farm to fork journey and showing the huge variety of roles and responsibilities taken on by farmers up and down the country.

Time will tell if Jeremy Clarkson can do for agriculture what he did for the appeal of motoring journalism via Top Gear and, latterly, The Grand Tour, but his foray into farming via his new Amazon Prime show should make for entertaining viewing.

A farmer is calling on his landlord the National Trust to enforce a mandatory ‘dogs on leads’ policy while walking through fields with livestock after loose dogs chased a heavily in-calf cow off a 30ft ledge.

With egg consumption rocketing, but a lack of workers in the egg sector, a collaboration is launching a course to attract new blood. Jez Fredenburgh reports.