The NFU in the North East says it is working on support for flood-affected farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. The NFU says it is putting its emergency contingency plans into effect and is urging affected […]
National park officials and working with a farmers group to look at applying for emergency funding for farmers affected by this week’s floods. Farmers in the Dales have lost livestock, crops, walls and fencing and […]
Police are appealing following the theft of a sheep pen in Wensl;eydale. The aluminium Prattley pen was stolen from a field at Hutton Hill near Leyburn on Sunday. The pen is marked with Smartwater. Anyone with […]
A Richmondshire business is distributing a new type of award-winning milking cluster which it is claimed reduces the risk of mastitis. JF Hudson, which are based near Finghall, have become the agents for German-made system […]
A mobile vending machine will deliver fresh milk to villages in the Yorkshire Dales from this weekend. The Home Farmer service has been launched by the Spence family who farm at Home Farm, in Aysgarth. […]
Work has started to reduce the height of a Yorkshire Dales barn so big it was dubbed the ‘giraffe house’ by locals. The work comes after Yorkshire Dales planning officers went to the High Court […]
A war of words has erupted between two prominent community leaders in the Yorkshire Dales over the national park authority’s refusal of three proposed barn conversions. In a strongly worded email to Yorkshire Dales National […]
Evening meetings for upland farmers on grants and stewardship schemes are to be held in Wensleydale and Swaledale. The Wensleydale Pantry in Hawes will host a meeting on Thursday, January 31, while the Buck Inn […]
The developing partnership between farmers and national park officers could save some hill farms from dereliction if and when the single farm payment is phased out, the Association of Rural Communities was told at its […]
Figures and analysis revealed at a farming conference in the Yorkshire Dales this week have suggested that a payment by results approach to agri-environment schemes can produce “amazing” environmental enhancements and strengthen trust between farmers […]
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