Since Rothbury’s landowner Lord Max Percy, son of the Duke of Northumberland, sold 3,500 acres to the Wildlife Trusts ...

Starting farming with a big overdraft and bank loan for 2700 ewes and some mixed-age cows meant they didn’t really get ahead ...

This negative portrayal disregards the fact that hill sheep farming supports local food production and thousands of jobs – both directly on farms and indirectly through processing, transport, and ...

hill sheep farming is the most common type of farming. On the valley floors, eg in Great Langdale, cattle can graze where the land is flatter and the grass is better quality because of more ...

For the Marstons, farming is a real family affair. Like most hill farmers, the Marstons' sheep spend most of their time on the open fell. Close to the farmhouse are a patchwork of small fields ...

TWO hill sheep fleeces from the Cumbrian fells, including the iconic Herdwick, were presented to His Majesty The King this week by the Farmer Network, one of the Country's leading farmer support ...

Each farming organisation was asked to bring along an item which represented the areas in which they are based, and therefore two hill sheep fleeces from Cumbria were placed before the King ...

A Tarland farmer has had 75 sheep stolen from his hill at Upper Towie Farm, Glenkindie. Gordon Stephen, who runs 1200 ewes and 90 suckler cows ...

A statue I would like to see somewhere in our area is one of a hill farmer, perhaps standing looking into the distance, with his crook in his ...

Ulster Unionist MLA, Robbie Butler, has raised the alarm over the exclusion of sheep from Northern Ireland’s proposed genetic ...

Does Angela Rayner have a beef about lamb? The Deputy Prime Minister has joined the Labour Government’s mission to make ...