Record-breaking Woolfest rises above recession
A record 5,000 people flocked to Cockermouth last weekend for the fifth annual Woolfest – and helped raise more than £1,100 for charity.
Top of the class
A Wigton teenager won his class at the Border Charolais Club’s annual stockjudging event
Felix the tractor rides again
The latest in a series of popular children’s books penned by a Cumbrian author is to be launched
Cumbria Farmer - June 2009
In this edition: Dairy farmers face prospect of £1,375 bill for disease levy; Delay to vets' training holds up grants scheme; Show organisers hope for a larger turn-out; Passion for ploughing
Marts reports
Carlisle: July 2
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Finest Friesians in the country
Richard and Joanne Bell have got some really old cows in their Nerewater dairy herd and yet it is one of the best in the country.
The wild west Cumbrian valley
Good old fashioned neglect is bringing out the unkempt beauty of west Cumbria’s Ennerdale Valley where once again the cattle roam wild.
'Get to grips with farm accounts!'
As a trainee accountant, what would be the most important money-saving advice you would give to a farmer client?
£5,000 in prize money up for grabs
HARRISON & Hetherington is offering to pay up to £5,000 in prize money to the winners of this year’s national primestock shows.
Let them eat cake
Cumbria farmer's wives have baked 20,000 Xmas cakes!
All things equine
A large crowd turned out at Harrison and Hetherington's xmas sale
