Farming

Aylsham Show president Poul Hovesen with his wife Alison at the 2022 event

Aylsham Show will donate £15,000 to charities after summer success

Norfolk farmer Will de Feyter and his fiancee Sarah Hovey, previously a property developer, have a launched pig business together

Norfolk farmer Will de Feyter and his fiancee Sarah Hovey, previously a property developer, have a launched pig business together

Meet the property developer who became a pig farmer

Poultry farmer Rob Morton with his free-range Christmas turkeys at Skeyton - pictured before the mandatory housing order was enforced from October 12

Poultry farmer Rob Morton with his free-range Christmas turkeys at Skeyton - pictured before the mandatory housing order was enforced from October 12

How farmers are living in fear of 10pm 'bird flu ping'

Bob King, commercial director of Great Ryburgh-based Crisp Malt, pictured during the barley harvest

Bob King, commercial director of Great Ryburgh-based Crisp Malt, pictured during the barley harvest

How will maltster's five-fold energy cost hike affect beer prices?

Poultry will be culled after four new cases of bird flu were confirmed in Norfolk

Poultry will be culled after four new cases of bird flu were confirmed in Norfolk

Epidemic escalates as four new Norfolk bird flu cases are confirmed

$North Walsham Young Farmers\' Club presented a ?1,300 cheque to the Big C cancer charity$ $North Walsham Young Farmers\' Club presented a ?1,300 cheque to the Big C cancer charity$

Young farmers' show jumping event raises £1,300 for cancer charity

Retiring farmer Martin Howes, of Briggate Old Hall Farm in Honing, is hosting an auction of machinery planned with his brother David, who died in July

Retiring farmer Martin Howes, of Briggate Old Hall Farm in Honing, is hosting an auction of machinery planned with his brother David, who died in July

Farmer prepares for emotional retirement sale following brother's loss

Tim and Geli Harris, owners of Catfield Fen

Tim and Geli Harris, owners of Catfield Fen

Couple win 14 year legal row costing £1m

Andrew, Hayley and William Clarke from Hevingham with their beef shorthorn heifer Meonside Rosebud Ray, which won the interbreed beef cattle championship at the 2022 Aylsham Show

Andrew, Hayley and William Clarke from Hevingham with their beef shorthorn heifer Meonside Rosebud Ray, which won the interbreed beef cattle championship at the 2022 Aylsham Show

Show's supreme cattle champion will launch a new Norfolk herd

The Aylsham Show's 2022 Food and Drink Hero Award was won by The Saracen's Head restaurant at Wolterton. Pictured from left are owners Tim and Janie Elwes with sous chef Jake Sayers

The Aylsham Show's 2022 Food and Drink Hero Award was won by The Saracen's Head restaurant at Wolterton. Pictured from left are owners Tim and Janie Elwes with sous chef Jake Sayers

Passion for local ingredients earns restaurant a 'Food Hero' accolade

Aylsham Show 2022. Show president Poul Hovesen with his wife Alison

Aylsham Show 2022. Show president Poul Hovesen with his wife Alison

Thousands flock to Aylsham Show's long-awaited comeback

Norfolk heavy horse enthusiast Derek Spanton with his Shire horse Herbie

Norfolk heavy horse enthusiast Derek Spanton with his Shire horse Herbie

Veteran horseman has attended every Aylsham Show for 70 years

A new colony of spoonbills has been formed at a farm in Cley. Pictured are an adult and young spoonbill at Holkham

A new colony of spoonbills has been formed at a farm in Cley. Pictured are an adult and young spoonbill at Holkham

Rare spoonbills start 'thrilling' new colony at coastal farm

Pieter van Egmond is managing director at Norfolk fruit grower Place UK, which has produced a surplus of strawberries this summer

Pieter van Egmond is managing director at Norfolk fruit grower Place UK, which has produced a surplus of strawberries this summer

Summer heatwave delivers tonnes of surplus strawberries

Wildcraft Brewery director Mike Deal with some of his firm's beers, now brewed at Worstead Farms

Wildcraft Brewery director Mike Deal with some of his firm's beers, now brewed at Worstead Farms

Brewery's farm move shortens the journey from barley to beer

North Walsham Young Farmers' Club held a show jumping event to raise money for the Big C cancer charity

North Walsham Young Farmers' Club held a show jumping event to raise money for the Big C cancer charity

Young farmers' show jumping event raises cash for cancer charity

Louisa Butcher and Will Sands of flower firm Brunstead Blooms

Louisa Butcher and Will Sands of flower firm Brunstead Blooms

Business is blooming as flower farm goes back to its roots

Chris Self, who was secretary of the Aylsham Show for 40 years, has been made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list

Chris Self, who was secretary of the Aylsham Show for 40 years, has been made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list

Long-serving Aylsham Show secretary made MBE in Queen's Birthday Honours

Wagyu beef cattle on the Worstead Estate

Wagyu beef cattle on the Worstead Estate

Prized Wagyu cattle herd is changing with the times

The Aylsham Show is scheduled to return on August 29, 2022

The Aylsham Show is scheduled to return on August 29, 2022

Aylsham Show organisers promise 'exciting' comeback for summer event

Alan Beck and his son Geoffrey have won the malting barley title in Stalham Farmers’ Club’s annual competition against Holt and District Farmers’ Club

Alan Beck and his son Geoffrey have won the malting barley title in Stalham Farmers’ Club’s annual competition against Holt and District Farmers’ Club

Champion farming family's barley is top of the crops

Aylsham Show president Poul Hovesen is looking forward to the summer event's 2022 comeback

Aylsham Show president Poul Hovesen is looking forward to the summer event's 2022 comeback

Aylsham Show president looks forward to summer comeback - at last

Ian and Andrew Spinks, partners of Mill Meadow Livestock at Oxnead, with their Stabiliser cattle and new calf

Ian and Andrew Spinks, partners of Mill Meadow Livestock at Oxnead, with their Stabiliser cattle and new calf

New calves join farm's low-carbon cattle herd

Farmer Nigel Wright pictured in 2007

Farmer Nigel Wright pictured in 2007

Obituary: Farmer and 'backbone' of agricultural organisations dies aged 83

Keys' Christmas poultry auction in Aylsham

Keys' Christmas poultry auction in Aylsham

Bidders flock to poultry auction to snap up Christmas turkeys

There will be livestock competitions at the Aylsham Show.

There will be livestock competitions at the Aylsham Show.

'Exciting' plans taking shape for Aylsham Show's 2022 comeback

Robert Perowne, owner of the Cobble Hill vineyard near Burnham Market

Robert Perowne, owner of the Cobble Hill vineyard near Burnham Market

Vineyard's £250,000 new winery presses its first grapes

Bob King, commercial director of Great Ryburgh-based Crisp Malting Group, pictured during the barley harvest

Bob King, commercial director of Great Ryburgh-based Crisp Malting Group, pictured during the barley harvest

Home-grown barley is 'best in the world' amid global shortages

North Walsham Young Farmers' Club presented a £250 charity cheque to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

North Walsham Young Farmers' Club presented a £250 charity cheque to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Young farmers' charity donations will help newborn babies in need

Aylsham Grain board members, from left: Bob Clabon, Ian Deane, David Tann, James Hammond, Simon Shaw, John Harrison, Andrew Dewing

Aylsham Grain board members, from left: Bob Clabon, Ian Deane, David Tann, James Hammond, Simon Shaw, John Harrison, Andrew Dewing

Grain store still a co-operative success after 40 years

Former Norfolk farm manager Rob den Engelse, who has died aged 86

Former Norfolk farm manager Rob den Engelse, who has died aged 86

Influential manager of major farming businesses dies aged 86

Simon Turner, owner and managing director of Sharrington Strawberries

Simon Turner, owner and managing director of Sharrington Strawberries

Strawberry farm loses 20pc of crop due to worker shortages

Tim Place is owner of Norfolk fruit firm Place UK, which has recruited workers from as far afield as Barbados to complete this year's strawberry harvest

Tim Place is owner of Norfolk fruit firm Place UK, which has recruited workers from as far afield as Barbados to complete this year's strawberry harvest

Caribbean workers helped to save Norfolk's fruit harvest

The auction of Billy Hammond's vintage farm machinery collection at Manor Farm in Aldborough

The auction of Billy Hammond's vintage farm machinery collection at Manor Farm in Aldborough

Vintage tractor enthusiast's prized collection goes under the hammer

Jack Hammond with a Minneapolis Moline tractor, part of the collection amassed by his late father Billy Hammond at Aldborough

Jack Hammond with a Minneapolis Moline tractor, part of the collection amassed by his late father Billy Hammond at Aldborough

Avid collector's vintage tractors to go under the hammer

Norfolk farmer Luke Paterson and NFU dairy adviser Phoebe Russell are both running the 2021 London Marathon for the Farm Africa charity

Norfolk farmer Luke Paterson and NFU dairy adviser Phoebe Russell are both running the 2021 London Marathon for the Farm Africa charity

Runners will make a marathon effort for African farming charity

Norfolk farmer Luke Paterson hopes to restore Dilham Lake, shown on this 1906 map, which was drained to create grazing land in the late 1970s

Norfolk farmer Luke Paterson hopes to restore Dilham Lake, shown on this 1906 map, which was drained to create grazing land in the late 1970s

'Forgotten' Norfolk broad could be re-flooded and restored

Aylsham Growers' five huge pea harvesters working in tandem to gather a bumper 2021 crop

Aylsham Growers' five huge pea harvesters working in tandem to gather a bumper 2021 crop

'Military operation' in battle to bring home bumper pea harvest

Jeremy Buxton (left) with his new solar-powered drinking water system at Eves Hill Farm near Reepham, along with Zac Battams (centre) and Ed Bramham-Jones from the Norfolk Rivers Trust

Jeremy Buxton (left) with his new solar-powered drinking water system at Eves Hill Farm near Reepham, along with Zac Battams (centre) and Ed Bramham-Jones from the Norfolk Rivers Trust

Solar drinking water system improves cattle farm's green credentials

James Beamish, farm manager at the Holkham Estate, is one of many farmers concerned about the impact of the 'pingdemic' on this year's harvest

James Beamish, farm manager at the Holkham Estate, is one of many farmers concerned about the impact of the 'pingdemic' on this year's harvest

'Pingdemic' could threaten the harvest, farmers warn

Dillington Carr SSSI (site of special scientific interest) is central to the Wendling Beck Exemplar Project, one of two Norfolk schemes to win funding

Dillington Carr SSSI (site of special scientific interest) is central to the Wendling Beck Exemplar Project, one of two Norfolk schemes to win funding

River projects win £170k to drive private investment in nature

Billy Hammond, a former president of Holt Farmers' Club and the Aylsham Show, has died aged 94. He is pictured with his rare Ransomes combine harvester

Billy Hammond, a former president of Holt Farmers' Club and the Aylsham Show, has died aged 94. He is pictured with his rare Ransomes combine harvester

Leading farmer and former Aylsham Show president dies aged 94

Farmer Jonny Cubitt, left, in his intercropped field of mixed peas and wheat at Blakeney, with Harry Farrow of Siding Bakery at Melton Constable

Farmer Jonny Cubitt, left, in his intercropped field of mixed peas and wheat at Blakeney, with Harry Farrow of Siding Bakery at Melton Constable

Eco-friendly farm grows wheat and peas together in same field

Rebecca Mayhew with some of her dairy cows at Old Hall Farm in Woodton

Rebecca Mayhew with some of her dairy cows at Old Hall Farm in Woodton

Which farms can you visit on Open Farm Sunday?

A machinery auction was held at Park Farm near Heydon following the Buxton family's decision to retire from farming

A machinery auction was held at Park Farm near Heydon following the Buxton family's decision to retire from farming

Tractors and harvesters sold as farming family retires after 100 years

Paul and Jenny Buxton at Park Farm in Heydon, where the Buxton family has farmed for 100 years

Paul and Jenny Buxton at Park Farm in Heydon, where the Buxton family has farmed for 100 years

Machinery sale marks end of family's 100-year farming history

Jake Fiennes is head of conservation at the Holkham estate and a member of the National Farmers' Union (NFU) environment forum

Jake Fiennes is head of conservation at the Holkham estate and a member of the National Farmers' Union (NFU) environment forum

Hundreds of farmers sign up for new green payment scheme pilot

Aylsham Show president Poul Hovesen has launched two new competitions for Norfolk farmers

Aylsham Show president Poul Hovesen has launched two new competitions for Norfolk farmers

Aylsham Show launches new competitions to find farming 'heroes'

Jeremy Buxton with his 200 egg-laying Goldline hens, which will play their part in his regenerative agriculture plans for Eves Hill Farm at Booton

Jeremy Buxton with his 200 egg-laying Goldline hens, which will play their part in his regenerative agriculture plans for Eves Hill Farm at Booton

Free-range hens join cattle farm's 'exciting' regenerative revolution

A crop sprayer at work on one of Sentry's Norfolk farms

A crop sprayer at work on one of Sentry's Norfolk farms

Three farms hit by thefts of valuable tractor GPS systems

Luke Paterson of Dilham Hall with one of the glamping pods at Tonnage Bridge

Luke Paterson of Dilham Hall with one of the glamping pods at Tonnage Bridge

How glamping, property and energy helped future-proof a farm business

Pieter van Egmond (right) will replace Tim Place (left) as managing director of Norfolk-based fruit grower Place UK

Pieter van Egmond (right) will replace Tim Place (left) as managing director of Norfolk-based fruit grower Place UK

Fruit firm's new boss plans 'exciting' new growth phase

Cyril Adams (right), who founded Norfolk grain and agricultural merchants Adams & Howling, has died aged 81. He is pictured with his son Matthew, the firm's managing director

Cyril Adams (right), who founded Norfolk grain and agricultural merchants Adams & Howling, has died aged 81. He is pictured with his son Matthew, the firm's managing director

Leading agricultural merchant Cyril Adams dies aged 81

Simon Turner, of Sharrington Strawberries, fears he may not have enough seasonal workers to pick his crop this summer

Simon Turner, of Sharrington Strawberries, fears he may not have enough seasonal workers to pick his crop this summer

Will there be enough workers to harvest this summer's strawberries?