A design student from Edinburgh Napier University has fashioned a handbag collection using the stomach lining of a Highland cow. Jocelyn Mather, 23, created a whole line of handbags using tripe, either used as the lining or outer material in honour of one of Scotland’s most iconic breeds. Fourth-year Jocelyn, whose designs were displayed at [...]
What on earth could you do with 200 cabbages? They’d certainly amount to a lot of soup, or one heck of a mountain of coleslaw. Alternatively, you could “hurl” them, and that’s just what the good folk in one Lincolnshire market town did this weekend. Holbeach Town and Country Fayre has added the World Cabbage [...]
The appearance of crop circles in farmers’ fields is blamed by some people on visiting extraterrestrials in UFOs, but it seems one Chinese farmer took things a bit too far when he claimed an alien had crash-landed on his farm and been accidentally electrocuted in the process. Mr Li caused an internet frenzy across [...]
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a…..cow. Even the Jersey cows are getting into the Superman spirit as the island prepares for its first ever film premiere on Friday (14 June). The heroic herd became donned the superhero’s famous blue-and-red cape in anticipation of Hollywood’s arrival for a very special premiere [...]
This gave the Farmers Weekly office a good chuckle today. Flick Huggins from Dorset sketched this little picture on her computer after seeing a local shepherd ‘giving a lift’ to a reluctant ewe. She composed the graphic and ditty to send to her son who is away at uni, “by way of keeping him in [...]
A spudtastic exhibition of potatoes has claimed the world record for the largest number of different varieties to be on display at once. Beating the previous record of 589 varieties, JBA Seed Potatoes, in association with Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture, put together a record-breaking display of 667 different kinds of potatoes at the [...]
Hot on the heels of vandal goats being arrested in India, two more of them are playing havoc, this time by going on the rampage through a South American town. A video of a disgruntled goat and his more timid friend has gone viral after it was posted on YouTube last week, with more than [...]
I once had most of my tent eaten by an escapee goat during an ill-fated holiday on a farm near Tenby, so I know only too well their ability for damage and vandalism. As annoyed as I was to have my accommodation on chewed by a hungry billy though, I clearly wasn’t half as angry [...]
Newfoundland has been rocked by controversy. Not a financial or political one – rather, one involving a goat and a horse. The Canadian province has created a charming video designed to make people consider visiting the island, featuring a goat dancing to music on the back of a horse called Sunshine. The Newfoundland Tourist Board [...]
It’s the biggest word you’ve ever heard, but I don’t think you’d ever get Mary Poppins telling you how it goes – especially now it’s been dropped from the German language. Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, which came in at a whopping 63 letters, was the title of a beef cattle BSE testing regulation and was the longest word [...]
