More than 1,000 pairs of white wellington boots are winging their way to poverty stricken areas in Eastern Europe after being donated by a workwear company. The wellies, which would normally be used by dairy farmers, were donated by Protectoplast, after the company moved offices and found they had no space to store them. The [...]
Andrew Jeanes sent us this picture of collecting 1st cut grass by the M5 in Somerset. The 140-acre field was picked up and hauled 10 miles to the farm clamp in a swift 10 hours, with a Krone 12m rake, a Krone 700 hp forager and 15 tractors and trailers. Can anyone beat that [...]
A team of school pupils have created a new sausage recipe that has gone on sale at nearly 50 Waitrose branches. As part of their food technology lessons, the pupils from Linton Village College in Cambridgeshire competed against fellow students for the opportunity to work with Waitrose and their sausage supplier Dalehead Foods to gain [...]
Here at Farmers Weekly we often see pictures of newlyweds posing for photos with their favourite tractor, but this is a new one… When Sarah Preece went to the wedding of her best friends Rob Evans and Louisa Burch on the outskirts of Claverley in Shropshire, the couple were surprised by this happy family of tractors. [...]
Here’s something you don’t see every day – a bona fide member of the royal family sitting proudly astride a John Deere. Ok so it’s not a tractor, but Zara Phillips hopped on a John Deere lawnmower at the Chelsea Flower Show to help the company celebrate 50 years of manufacturing lawn and turf equipment. [...]
A keen sewer who started offering quilting lessons for fun has just been awarded a regional prize for farm diversifications. Keen sewer Jo Colwill runs Cowslip Workshops on her family’s 100-acre organic farm near Launceston. At first she offered quilting classes, but the business has since branched out to include a shop, cafe, classes and [...]
Sadly this exhibion has just finished (sorry, I only heard about it this morning!) but I love this picture – so thought I’d share it. It’s from Odyssey Exhibition, recently staged at Bath Abbey and this piece, called ‘Voyager’, was by Tessa Farmer. Picture: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features
Book commentators are tipping a Fife farmer to take the publishing world by storm, even though the launch of his first book clashed with the end of the lambing season. James Oswald, who runs a 350 acre livestock farm, realised a lifelong dream when his novel Natural Causes was released by Penguin earlier this month. [...]
We’ve talked about animals with identity issues before. Well here’s another one – a sheep in Shropshire that thinks it’s a dog.
Question: How many children can you fit in a tractor bucket? Answer: 15 – if you can get them to sit still! ‘Guess the number of children we can fit in Tractor Ted’s tractor bucket’ was one of the activities at Heddington Preschool‘s recent open day. As a rural village school, surrounded by tractors and [...]
