By Jonathan White
Ravensmoor played host to the first-ever Farmer’s Dash as locals, farmers and clubs came together for a morning of exercise and community spirit.
Led by Paul McIntyre, founder of Farmers Pants bike rides and Dabbers Dash at Barony Park, the new 5km run/walk started from the layby with the phone box opposite The Farmer’s Arms pub.
Farmers’ wives Elizabeth Hickson and Margaret Callwood are saddling up for a marathon ride to raise funds for a charity close to their hearts.
The long-time friends are hard in training ahead of their cycle challenge from London to Bruges in September.
By Jonathan White
“The Farmer’s Pants” free 11-mile cycle rides are returning to Ravensmoor near Nantwich.
They take place every Friday evening from Marsh Lane in the village of Ravensmoor.
Farmers in South Cheshire gathered in Nantwich today to protest against the Government’s plans to impose Inheritance Tax on some family farms.
While thousands travelled for a major demonstration in central London, local ones protested on Sainsbury’s roundabout on Middlewich Road in Nantwich.
Nantwich Town Council says it will “discuss alternative delivery methods” with organisers of external markets it plans to withdraw from.
It says the decision to withdraw from around 12 externally organised Artisan and Antique Fair markets was taken because of difficulties attracting staff and wellbeing on existing workers.
Councillors have backed plans to axe around 10 externally run Antique and Artisan markets in Nantwich town centre.
The proposal would see the council stage more live music and children’s activities on the square in their place.
Cheshire East Council is to support a badger vaccination programme in the borough.
The authority will be partnering with Cheshire Badger Vaccination Programme (CBVP) to carry out the vaccinations.
Two young farmers are looking forward to global travel thanks to an annual scholarship run by Reaseheath College and the Cheshire Agricultural Society.
Sarah Heath, a trainee land agent from Tarporley, and Rebecca Kelsall, a herdswoman from Sandbach, have each been awarded £2,000 John Platt Travel Scholarships.
Police, countryside rangers and council teams are targeting irresponsible dog owners to cut the number of attacks on livestock in South Cheshire.
A new ‘Get a Grip’ campaign has been launched to ensure pets do not harm farm animals and nesting birds.
The badger vaccination programme is to be extended in Cheshire after more funding was secured by the Wirral & Cheshire Badger Group (W&CBG).
The charity’s programme began in 2014 on the Adlington Estate in Cheshire East.
Agricultural advisors in Nantwich have won funding to help 50 farmers with their businesses. The Reaseheath College advisors won a bid to secure almost £50,000 from The Prince’s Countryside Fund.
More than 70 farmers gathered at a dairy farming conference at Reaseheath College in Nantwich. Delegates packed the John Platt Farming Innovation Centre to hear speakers presenting real life case studies of their own businesses.
Hundreds of dairy farmers from Nantwich and South Cheshire have joined in the protests over milk prices. The farmers have been demonstrating outside processing firms calling on fairer prices for their milk.
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