Farm Safety

Farmers have been urged to fit fire suppression systems to their combines to reduce fire risk and save lives and harvest.

Farming has been named ‘Britain’s deadliest job’, after it was revealed that 27 workers die each year from injuries sustained on farm.

Three young farmers have completed a 29-hour milking marathon, raising more than £3,000 for the Farm Safety Foundation (FSF).

A popular young farmer died after trying to jump onto a moving tractor and falling, an inquiry has heard.  

Yorkshire Dairy Goats has been ordered to pay £200,000 after a much loved and extremely valued worker died when struck by a reversing telehandler.

A lack of appreciation of the importance of food production in Government and wider society is fuelling a mental health crisis among farmworkers, according to industry experts.

A Farmer from Gwynedd has died after sustaining ‘massive injuries’ in a tractor accident, an inquest has heard.

Farmers are being urged to keep a close eye on stocks of diesel and fertiliser as rocketing prices fuel fears of a rural crime spree.

Gisburn Auction Marts has been fined £18,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,819 after an employee was fatally injured while helping to load a dairy bull into a lorry.

Understanding and thinking about cows’ innate and learned behaviours will help reduce on-farm incidents for farmers and veterinarians.