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For many roofers, plumbers and landscape gardeners, the route into pest control often follows a confrontation with a wasps’ nest.

This dehesa landscape is far from natural. Man-made when the forests were thinned centuries back to leave the best trees and provide shade from the summer sun, it remains a living landscape worked by farmers.

Brexit heralds enormous change for farmers; a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a new farming policy, one that begins to repair the enormous damage that CAP-funded farming has done to wildlife across Britain.

Most farms possess a chainsaw, which can be used for cutting firewood, topping fence posts, thinning coppices and felling large trees. No forestry machinery, particularly the farm chainsaw, should be used without adequate training, an understanding of the risks involved, the correct protective clothing and proper communication arrangements.

A telescopic material handler, also called a telehandler, is a machine widely used in agriculture and industry.

A common perception of agriculture is that working on a farm is something you inherit from your parents or something you do because you grew up on a farm.

Growing up on a family farm in Northern Ireland, James Gillen’s passion for agriculture was ignited at a young age.

Andrew Murray’s career in agriculture began back in 2001 when he enrolled at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) in Northern Ireland and undertook an HND in Agriculture with Mechanisation.

Peter has recently qualified as the first senior bridge inspector under the new Bridge Inspector Scheme, read all about Peter’s experience from registering to achieving certification.