Uncertainty facing farmers has been highlighted with the unveiling of plans to secure two families’ income by launching a glamping holidays venture featuring African safari-style tents in a North Yorkshire field. Plans seeking to change […]
Farmers in the Yorkshire Dales are being urged to sign up for free business support funded by The Prince’s Farm Resilience Programme. The programme includes a series of five business skills workshops to help farmers […]
The Government’s Agriculture Bill could be a good fit for the Dales, says the chair of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. But Cllr Carl Lis also warns that the economy and environment of the Dales […]
A bizarre first-past-the-post contest for planning permission between two farms appears to have finally been settled, amid calls for farms to be moved out of villages. Richmondshire District Council’s planning committee was told to reconsider […]
The Environment Secretary has announced that a ‘Payment by Results’ project being piloted in Wensleydale will be the first agri-environment scheme directly funded by the UK. Michael Gove said such schemes were “the future”. Nineteen […]
Richmondshire hill farmers quizzed Richmond MP Rishi Sunak about Brexit and life after the UK leaves the EU. The farmers, a mixed of sheep and dairy producers, gathered at the Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes to […]
Police have appealed for information after five cattle were stolen from land in Wensleydale. Beetween Tuesday and Saturday this week, five Aberdeen Angus cattle were removed from land near to Thwaite Bridge Ford, Hawes. Three […]
A group of farmers helping to pilot a new type of agri-environment scheme were on their knees in a ‘five-star’ meadow at Thornton Rust this week. The farmers took part in a two-hour training session […]
A dairy farmer in Thoralby has received planning permission to build the largest circular slurry store in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. At nearly 41 metres in diameter and five metres in height, the store […]
The future of the Yorkshire Dales National Park environment looks green and its economy bright following Brexit and radical changes to farming, it has been claimed. As the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) announced it […]
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