Maureen Hodges

A KEY part of this year’s Texel Sheep Society 50th anniversary celebrations will be the Textravaganza National Texel Show at Borderway Mart, Carlisle this summer.

THE Denmire Holstein sale held at Borderway Mart in Carlisle was certainly a diamond one.

FARMERS and rural communities will benefit from health and wellbeing support across the North of England over the next two years, following a successful £150,000 funding bid.

THE summer months are prime agricultural and county show time, when vegetables are buffed, victoria sponges get competitive, and farmers parade their finest animals around the ring.

CUMBRIA will never have seen anything like it before: scantily clad young farmers, hips gyrating provocatively beneath grass skirts.

FARM chiefs welcomed the new package of measures unveiled by the Prime Minister at the second annual Farm to Fork summit held on Tuesday at Number 10.

IN excess of 170 young farmers have taken part in Driver Awareness Sessions at fire stations the length and breadth of the county over the past year.

A SHEEP watchdog is urging renewed vigilance as bluetongue cases are expected to rise this spring and summer.

A MAJOR Penrith based egg producer says hen welfare and egg laying productivity are benefitting from an innovation grant of £50,000 from Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership (CLEP).

DAIRY giant Arla has announced it will be injecting cash into four of its site across the UK, including its Lockerbie Creamery.