Blackden Manor offers a confident and stylish blend of old and new of the sort that’s rarely seen – and it works beautifully. Penny Churchill takes a look. The old farming village of Goostrey lies 2½ miles north of Holmes Chapel and eight miles south of Alderley Edge, the ancient and picturesque village in the east […]
This year’s Queensland Rural Ambassador is a young cattleman from Alpha. Click to check the original article.
Martin Fone takes a look at one of the most ingenious uses of plants ever imagined by mankind: Linnaeus’s Flower Clock. In the 4th century BC Androsthenes of Thasos, one of Alexander the Great’s admirals, noticed that the leaves of the tamarind tree drooped at night to protect its fruits. Francis Bacon, in Sylva sylvarum […]
High Country Doughtmasters at Eskdale sold 35 of 45 bulls and all 26 females sold at the sale on Saturday. Click to check the original article.
The new deal means the iconic American brand’s first major global exports of its zero-turn mowers will soon be sold exclusively at more than 40 selected PFG Australia dealerships across Australia, including Perth, Bunbury, Manjimup, Cowaramup and Muchea in WA. Click to check the original article.
Held at the Nanango showgrounds this year, there was plenty of support from Central Queensland commercial operators who had made the trip south, such as the McKinlay’s, who also went home with the second top-priced bull, last of the draft and lot 37, Mervale Zane, for $16,000, on account of Sarah Benbow of Mervale Limousins, […]
The interbreed champions at Royal Queensland was hotly contested. Click to check the original article.
It was a local buyers gallery who filled orders at the 2023 Aussie Angus and Brangus Bull sale, held at the Coolabunia saleyards on Saturday. Click to check the original article.
Vendors travelled as far as Tasmania and Victoria to off dogs at Wagga. Click to check the original article.
Once the scourge of gamekeepers, lurchers have since leapt to dizzying heights of desirability and now make endearing family pets, says Katy Birchall. Photographs by Millie Pilkington. ‘Impy was a wonderfully wicked dog,’ declares Lady Rebecca Wharton, fondly recalling the lurcher once owned by her parents, Hugh Courtenay, the late 18th Earl of Devon, and […]
The Three Horseshoes Batcombe is a reimagined 17th century pub with fantastic food and rooms is inextricably linked to Country Life, discovers Giles Kime. The birth of Country Life and the evolution of motoring are inextricably entwined; when he launched the magazine in 1897, the founder Edward Hudson recognised that the car would change our […]
The popular Louth Races returned after a series of cancellations on August 12. Click to check the original article.