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Pushing ahead with plans for vintage tractor show anniversary year

Taking place from 4-5 November, the Newark Vintage Tractor and Heritage Show has already opened competition entries, which close on 13th September

Land based T levels to be launched

Jane Brooks looks at new qualifications for young people in the land-based industries

Could your bees be starving in the sunshine?

Claire Waring looks at what to do if the forage runs out in late summer

Later season seed sowings

Kim Stoddart explains which vegetable seed can still be sown this month for longer lasting harvests ...

New introductions to the current flock

Acquiring new stock is always an exciting time but, as Paul Donovan investigates, introducing them to an established flock can have its difficulties

Taking care of turkeys

Keeping turkeys happy and healthy by understanding what they need

Reporting from a very special poultry sale

Grant Brereton meets a respected breeder

But what exactly is a True Bantam?

Grant Brereton takes a closer look at these spectacular small chickens

Hot Summers and Poultry Drinkers

Hot, dry summer days brings a new set of challenges when providing water to your poultry. Fiona and Hugh Osborne describe how they have solved some of these issues.

Keeping ducks free of diseases

Liz Fairbrother says your observation and management will help to keep your ducks dabbling

Vet advice from an experienced poultry vet

Not only holiday makers like hot weather and especially red mite! so do parasites

Influx of new buyers pushes up prices of amenity land at auction

lan Kitson Director, Cheffins reflects on why the market for grazing land land is on the up

Smallholding down under - bushfires, brown snakes but satisfying

Janice Houghton-Wallace looks at living off the land in Australia

Small but mighty; why Lowlines are perfect for smallholders

Standing at just over one-metre tall, Lowlines are the perfect fit for smallholders.

It's a Dog's Life Down on the Farm - and on the smallholding...

In his bi-monthly series, Jeremy Hobson continues to discuss the life of the smallholders' dog as a working companion and pet

What can happen if a goat's brain or nervous system develops a fault?

Goat Vet, David Harwood BVetMed, FRCVS, looks at what can go wrong and considers prevention

Getting Started with Longhorns

Wade Muggleton took the big step of keeping their own cattle and he hasn't looked back!

Building a better fruit cage

Fiona and Hugh Osborne extensively use fruit and vegetable cages to protect valuable crops.

Excitement builds for 2023 Blacknose Beauties National Show & Sale

The immensely popular Blacknose Beauties National Show & Sale returns once again to H&H Borderway Mart, Carlisle on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th August.

Transporting livestock thoughts on trailers

John Sones gives top towing tips and looks at the legalities

Beat the heat!

Andrew Fothergill, National Poultry Advisor at Farmgate Feeds gives his advice on keeping your hens comfortable in the warmer months.

Cost of Living Crisis: How we can grow back

Andrew Oldham shows how to take back some control of your food

From Fleece to Floor

Jack Smellie explains the process of turning newly shorn fleece into fibre for rug making

Can My Goat Dairy Be Eco-Friendly?

Tamsin Cooper finds greener ways to manage productive goats

Alpacas-Identification and Record keeping

Joy Whitehead explores what you must do, what you might do and what you should do!

Happiness in herbs Top Ten to grow

Kim Stoddart outlines her pick of the most flavour some, resilient best for your smallholding biodiversity-boosting, vegetable garden....

Everything's Coming Up Rhubarb

Andrew Oldham praises a very British practical crop, easy to grow but so diverse in uses and recipes

Time to talk turkey again

Liz Fairbrother says with summer upon us we need now to think of the festive season and plan for turkeys

Get cracking with eggs.

Paul Donovan investigates the biology of an egg which is a marvel of nature

Keeping the flag flying for pure breeds of poultry

Grant Brereton gets breeders and owners together and considers eBay for hatching eggs