A spot of Bovaer: The dairy cow additive that's set tongues wagging isn't bad for anyone — and it's just what we need if we want both milk and clean

Listen to best-selling author Rosamund Young on the latest edition of the Country Life Podcast.

Far from being ‘stupid’ or ‘silly cows’, cattle are clever and emotionally intelligent, with bags of personality, too, says John

Kate Green reports back from the Oxford Farming Conference, where farmers, environmentalists and the DEFRA secretary locked horns on the

Minette Batters: ‘I don’t believe this Government set out to wipe out the family farm. Yet it will be the consequence’

Carla Carlisle: We’ve diversified, modernised and compromise — but now we’re farming at a loss again for the first time since the ‘Great Betrayal’

The law of unintended consequences is teaming up with Britain’s latest tax rises — and it’ll hit our historic houses hard