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  • Somerset livestock market tops three million sheep sales

    Sedgemoor Auction Centre, the largest livestock market in the south of England, has seen its sales of sheep pass the three million mark. As an essential business, the market run by Greenslade Taylor Hunt at Bridgwater, Somerset, has continued to

  • Two Poole men charged with hare coursing on Ringwood farmland

    Two men from Poole have been charged with hare coursing on farmland near Ringwood. Hampshire Police officers were called out to an incident at 6.54pm on Sunday, September 13. There were reports of people hunting a wild animal with dogs on private

  • Nominations invited for the South West Farmer Awards 2021

    The South West Farmer Award winners 2019 Now in its sixth year, South West Farmer Awards give the farming industry in the west country a chance to stand up and be recognised with an emphasis on future and forward thinking farmers. Supported

  • Value of farmland up, supply down but demand strong in 2020

    Agricultural land values rose by an average of 3 per cent in 2020 with record low supply and relatively robust demand helping to underpin values. That's the conclusion from Strutt & Parker's analysis of its Farmland Database, which records the details

  • Boy bitten twice by Rottweiler-type dog in Poole

    A boy was bitten twice by a dog in Poole on Sunday (January 10). At around 2.30pm on Sunday a 12-year-old boy was riding his bike on the heath at Delph Woods in Broadstone. He rode near to a woman walking two dogs, who asked that he did not

  • Farm's message after cow is injured in dog attack

    A community farm in Salisbury is urging dog owners to be more responsible, after one of their cows was attacked by a dog. Around 7pm on Saturday January 9, a dog broke into the fence where four highland cows were being kept, injuring one of them