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LAST month we watched “Clarkson’s Farm”, says Farmer columnist, Adam Day.

Local farmers are being urged to take part in the Farm Resilience Programme to find out more about changes to farm payments and to receive free…

Newton Rigg Campus at Penrith NEW interest has emerged from potential buyers interested in Newton Rigg campus and dairy farm. Meanwhile two organisations that have been based on the former campus site near Penrith left their buildings this week after owners, York-based Askham Bryan closed the renowned countryside college. Both the Farmer Network and Cumbria Young Farmers Club who were given notice to quit their bases by the end of July have now found alternative accommodation. But the News & Star/Cumberland News understands that the campus and dairy farm could be edging towards new ow...

Visit: High Sheriff of Cumbria discusses challenges facing farming community THE many challenges facing the farming community were discussed when young farmers met with the High Sheriff of Cumbria, David Beeby, and representatives from the Cumbria Community Foundation and Westmorland Ltd. This Farming Life stars Matty and Dani Blair hosted the visit, at Thrimby Grange near Little Strickland, and were joined by The Farmer Network Farming Ambition Programme participants Murray Craig, Holly Potter and Rachel Graham. The visit gave them the opportunity to discuss the many challenges and uncer...

Event: Jim Campbell THE Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme (LPS), led by the North Pennines AONB Partnership and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, are holding an information event with The Farmer Network at Town Head Farm, Croglin, hosted by Jim Campbell on Tuesday July 6 2-4pm. The Fellfoot Forward LPS is a major project for people and nature which focuses on part of the North Pennines AONB in North East Cumbria and beyond to the river Eden. The aim of the farmer information event is to help farmers prepare for the changes in farming support and to look at the oppo...