Countryside

Woodland - Coppice workers are an essential part of woodland management, something that has been going on for thousands of years.
Rights of way - The "rights of way" sign just visible in the background.
Leisure - The Dorset coastline as seen from the beach. Note the freshly fallen chalk boulders.
Leisure - Situated in the South West of Dorset, The West Country, England, UK, Lyme Regis is an historic unspoiled seaside resort and fishing port.
Crafts & skills - Trial plots being studied by a local group of farmers.
Crafts & skills - Trial crop plots.
Wastes - Compost being spread to help maintain soil fertility.
Landscapes - Heathland.
Landscapes - Sheep grazing the heathland.
Leisure - The Dorset coastline..
Woodland - A young coppiced stool.
Rights of way - Public right of way.
Woodland - The coppice workers shelter.
Woodland - Coppice stools and chopping blocks.
Linear features - Young and newly planted hedgerow.
Linear features - Young hedgerow.
Linear features - Chalk downland. The new hedge is visible in the foreground.
Linear features - Tree lined border.
Linear features - The winter snow.
Linear features - The tree lined border provides an essential habitat for nesting birds and fledglings alike.
Woodland - A leaf showing its colours on an Autumns day.
Crafts & skills - Charcoal kilns laying dormant in the winter snow.
Landscapes - English chalk downland.
Flora - Wildflowers in a field of Oil Seed Rape.
For Fun - Chalk downland.
Buildings - Wet concrete in a new grain store.
Buildings - 1000 year old Saxon church.
Buildings - Sheep grazing.
Buildings - 1000 year old Saxon church.
Buildings - 1000 year old Saxon church on a cold winters day.
Buildings - 1000 year old Saxon church in a chalk downland setting.
Leisure - Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England.
Landscapes - Chalk downland with a fresh dusting of snow.
Rights of way - Public right of way heading off into the woods.
Landscapes - Tyre tracks through freshly fallen snow.
Landscapes - English chalk downland.
Landscapes - The over wintered crop is now being protected by the freshly fallen snow.
Landscapes - Sunset over chalk downland.
Landscapes - Pylons.
Landscapes - A pylon in a flowering crop of Oil Seed Rape.
Rights of way - Public right of way.
Rights of way - Public right of way through an over wintered crop.
Rights of way - Public right of way.
Landscapes - Chalk downland.
Flora - The Scottish coastline.
Fauna - A Puffin prepares to take off on a Scottish coastline.
Fauna - A puffin waits for their mate to come back from a fishing trip.
Fauna - A gull and chick survey the area for possible food. Notice how well the chick is camouflage against the rock, essential if the chick is to survive the coming months.
Fauna - Goose on its way back to find its mate.
Fauna - Silver Lapwings are now thriving on the farm, a sure sign that modern day farming practices are working.
Fauna - A bird waiting patiently for its next feed.
Fauna - Butterflies in early Spring.
Fauna - A butterfly warming up in early spring.
Fauna - A pheasant.
Fauna - Ladybirds gathering in large numbers.
Fauna - Wildflower meadow.
Flora - Orchid.
Flora - Dandelions surround a newly created woodland pond.
Flora - Teasels
Flora - Teasels
Flora - Wildflower meadow in early spring.
Flora - Wildflower meadow in early spring.
Rights of way - English chalk downland.
Rights of way - Public right of way along a field margin.
Flora - A Teasel in early spring
Fauna - A big moth.
Woodland - Wild Garlic thrives in an English woodland.
Rights of way - A hard frost and a light dusting of snow.
Woodland - A thousand year old coppiced Lime tree.
Fauna - Marbled white butterfly.
Woodland - A view up through the canopy of a thousand year old coppiced Lime tree.
Fauna - Bluetits enjoying peanuts left out by the land owner on a cold winters day.
Woodland - Fence surrounding a new and established woodland.
Woodland - Woodland ride.
Woodland - Coppice workers "yard" with charcoal kilns to the right.
Woodland - English woodland on.
Woodland - Woodland rides provide easy access for the woodland workers.
Woodland - A woodland ride.
Woodland - The woodland worker takes a quick break from gathering the coppiced "whips" for making into thatching spars. The coppiced material will also be used on local building projects.
Woodland - A woodland copse shadows a field of emerging Oil seed Rape.
Fauna - Hares are now a regular sight on the farm.
Fauna - A Badger.
Fauna - Hares.
Fauna - A bat.
Fauna - Frog spawn.
Fauna - Frog spawn.
Fauna - A bat feeding at night.
Water features - A woodland pond created by the landowner to encourage biodiversity on the farm.
Woodland - Silver Birch trees on an Autumns day.
Rights of way - Well marked rights of way ensure that access to the countryside is a joy.
Conservation - A beetle bank in a crop utilising wasted ground under electricity lines.
Buildings - A bio gas plant in Germany. The UK has been slow to adopt anaerobic digestion as a method for dealing with waste and producing electrical energy.
Flora - Cocksfoot in flower, a common grass in meadows.
For Fun - Study in mud
Flora - Sainfoin is a distinctive plant found in dry chalk grassland. It is now commonly seen in conservation seed mixes planted by farmers to encourage wildlife; sometimes it is found in grass crops where it is included because of its nitrogen fixing ability.
Leisure - Walking and rambling are popular pastimes in our beautiful countryside
Buildings - Evening light on a new barn construction.
Landscapes - Sunset in the countryside
Fauna - A Common Blue Butterfly feeding on a flowering grass.
Leisure - Kite surfing is now a popular extreme sport on many beaches.
Buildings - A bio gas plant is using maize silage as a fuel stock for anorectic digestion. Input of the silage into the bio digester is carefully controlled to maintain the correct fermentation characteristics.
Flora - Pyramid orchids in chalk grassland
Crafts & skills - Thatching spars.
Fauna - Feeding time for the baby swallows.
Fauna - Young barn owls.
Buildings - Fertiliser stored in a farm building.
Flora - The flower of Butcher's Broom - an ancient woodland indicator plant.
Flora - Common Twayblade, a member of the orchid family.
Crafts & skills - Traditional building techniques utilising coppice derived materials (CDM).
Flora - Common broomrape is a parasitic plant.
Flora - The ink cap toadstool in grassland in October.
Fauna - Barn owl social!
Flora - Bluebells in natural woodland.
Woodland - Coppiced woodland showing recently cut hazel stools with ash canopy
Landscapes - Moon, oak and stubble.
Rights of way - A country lane in autumn.
Wastes - Waste wood on the left and after chipping on the right. These woodchips are destined for a use in a power station.
Flora - A bumble bee making the most of flowering Cowslips.
Buildings - A concrete pump with a hydraulic rig delivers concrete to the back of a barn for a new floor.
Flora - Cowslips in grassland.
Flora - Wild garlic in flower in natural woodland.
Fauna - A pair of mating Ringlets. Ringlets are a common and widespread butterfly that can be seen on the wing in June, July and August. They are mainly found in woodland glades, along old hedgerows and among scrub on download.
Leisure - A shooting party at a rough pheasant shoot.
Rights of way - Britain has a fabulous network of rights-of-way. Many of today's trackways follow ancient routes that would have been used for trading livestock and other goods.
Rights of way - A well maintained stile providing access to a footpath from a road.
Flora - The Rough Poppy is a relatively rare poppy of arable land. The fruit can be seen below flower.
Flora - Oxeye daisies blowing in the wind.
For Fun - The characteristic flat top of the Cumulus Nimbus cloud.
Fauna - The Cinnabar moth is largely nocturnal but the larvae can be seen by day feeding on ragwort.
Fauna - A Grass snake basking in summer sunshine.
Flora - Wild Teasel reaches 2 m in height and is common on disturbed grassland. The fruits are born in the flower heads and are popular with Goldfinches.
Linear features - Fencing, just one type of linear feature in the countryside
Flora - Small Scabious, an upright branching perennial of chalky grassland.
Landscapes - A woodland planting in the middle of a large arable field. The planting is surrounded by a grass buffer zone and together they provide an excellent wildlife habitat.
Wastes - Farmer wastes have to be recycled. Here plastic fertiliser bags are compressed into a large bale that can be transported efficiently.
Flora - Bluebells in natural woodland. Bluebells are native only to North Western Europe.
Rights of way - Fresh air and solitude - the joy of winter walking.
Woodland - Remnants of the Caledonian Pine Forest
Landscapes - Spring colours in the highlands
Buildings - Patterns in concrete; this floor has been power floated to create a polished finish.
Water features - Bull rushes at the waters edge.
Landscapes - Highland landscape
Linear features - Frost detail on a barbed wire fence.
Rights of way - A well maintained path through a field of wheat
Linear features - A mature avenue of trees
Leisure - The Eden Project
Parks & gardens - Autumn colours
Woodland - A view skywards through an ancient coppiced lime tree; afternoon light in early autumn.
Fauna - Small blue butterfly
Landscapes - Mountain stream and forestry
Fauna - Baby barn owls in a purpose designed nest box.
Conservation - The flowers of phacelia, a striking crop that is full of insects and in particular bees, through the summer months. It is often grown by farmers for conservation purposes.
Fauna - A hare in a crop of oilseed rape.
Crafts & skills - Trial plots provide farmers with an opportunity to see the effects of different fertiliser and pesticide regimes. Farmers and operators need to attend events like this to obtain the necessary points they require for certification as spray operators.
Crafts & skills - On-farm events are held throughout the year to provide training, information and technical assistance on agricultural matters.
Flora - Fragrant orchid.
Conservation - Reduced weed control in this crop of oilseed rape has resulted in a flush of poppies. Most soils contain a seed bank of rare arable plants that can be encouraged in certain circumstances. You are
Linear features - A well maintained young hedge that has been protected by stock fencing on both sides.
Fauna - A highly inquisitive fox cub.
Woodland - Woodland glade in carefully managed deciduous woodland
Woodland - Ancient coppiced lime tree, note that this is just one tree and not a clump of different trees
Woodland - Thinning a poplar plantation
Linear features - Dry stone walling
Landscapes - Arable, livestock and energy farming. A diversified future?
For Fun - Shadows and light on farmland landscape.
Fauna - Roe deer on the woodland edge. Note the deer fencing which protects working coppice.
Landscapes - Highland scene
Fauna - Hornet looking for trouble! Hornet populations have been rising recently.
Landscapes - Woodland embrace, a yew tree and a beech tree enjoy close company.
Landscapes - A beech tree in a downland setting.
Buildings - Architectural students experiment with traditional building design.
Fauna - A baby barn owl.
Rights of way - A well made style.
Rights of way - A footpath alongside a crop.
Fauna - A young fox cub taking a rest.
Fauna - Marbled white butterfly feeding on Timothy grass
Woodland - Recently cut hazel in coppiced ancient woodland
Linear features - Dense well managed new hedge with adjoining wildflower margin
Leisure - An improvised swing with a view.
Leisure - A trip to town - seeing the sights.
Woodland - Autumn colours on fallen oak leaves.
Flora - White Helleborine - an orchid normally found in the shade of beech trees.
Flora - Bulrush beside a pond. Bulrushes grow to 2m in height and grow in freshwater margins.
Fauna - Common Blue butterfly on Wild Marjoram in August.
Conservation - Ancient pollarded oak tree
Crafts & skills - A coppice worker splitting hazel to make thatching rods.
Flora - Coltsfoot
Flora - Fruit of the dandelion plant.
Woodland - Flowering Larch
Fauna - Meadow Brown butterfly
Leisure - A biome at the Eden Project
Conservation - An old stag headed oak tree in an arable field. Ploughing is kept at a distance to preserve the tree roots
Flora - Old man's beard - seeds of the wild clematis. This shrub is a vigorous climber that can swamp young trees and hedges.
Water features - Overflow from a dam.
Woodland - A woodland ride in coniferous woodland
Fauna - Skipper butterfly
Landscapes - Summer scenes, baled straw
Fauna - A spider's web in morning light.
Fauna - Bumble bees are an important pollinator of wild flowers and crops.
Fauna - The Meadow Brown butterfly is widely distributed and commonly found in grassy places.
Flora - The flower of Lesser Burdock, a common biennial of wasteground and hedges. Growing to around half a metre in height it flowers between July and September.
Buildings - A biogas plant. Anaerobic digestion produces methane which runs a generator producing electricity. There are usually two domed chambers in a plant for catching the gas. The third, shown here, stores the solid output of the process for use as a fertiliser.
For Fun - Cloudscape
Crafts & skills - In the summer months farm walks are a good opportunity for farmers to get together and discuss farming and conservation matters.
Fauna - Young fox cub enjoying spring warmth.
Buildings - The sympathetic use of a traditional farm building as a workshop.
Fauna - The common frog in the margins of a shallow pond.
Buildings - Establishing the footings of a new farm building.
Fauna - A Slow Worm - a member of the Lizard family that is often found warming itself beneath sacks all bags left in the open.
Buildings - Old, new and the way between.
Buildings - A courtyard of traditional farm buildings.
Flora - Wood Anemone, a perennial plant that often forms carpets of flowers on the woodland floor.
Fauna - A slug grazing in woodland.
Buildings - An anaerobic digestion plant converting green material to biogas.
Woodland - Detail of the female flower or bud of the hazel plant.
Fauna - A young fox cub.
Wastes - A compressed bale of used fertiliser bags ready for transport to the recycling centre.
Woodland - Catkins, the male part of the Hazel flower and a copious provider of pollen.
Rights of way - A bridleway is marked in a recently sown spring crop. Later, after crop emergence a herbicide will be applied to maintain a crop and weed free right of way.
Wastes - Green wastes are now commonly composted and returned to farmland as a fertiliser.
Wastes - Loading compost into a manure spreader.
For Fun - Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
Buildings - A small town adjoining farmland.
Buildings - Broken downpipe and snow.
Leisure - Images from the UKagriculture.com web site in use at the FACE stand at the Royal Show 2003
Flora - Ragged robin
Leisure - The grain chain on display at the Royal Show
Buildings - Part of a biogas plant, anaerobic digestion converts green material into a gas that can power a generator to produce electricity.
Water features - Ships in the Solent. Each year several million tonnes of wheat and barley are exported from ports on the south and east coasts of England.
Parks & gardens - Leaves of a young lime tree in autumn
Woodland - A forestry forwarder extracts timber from the felling site and brings it to the roadside
Buildings - Gas engines are driven by a biogas produced from anaerobic digestion. The engines run generators which produce electricity which is supplied to the grid.
Water features - A new pond in a young woodland setting
Buildings - A traditional farm building with a single dove cote.
Landscapes - Summer colours
Landscapes - Cloudscape.
Landscapes - An aerial view of a small rural settlement.
Landscapes - Pylon with birds
Woodland - The leaf of the Chequer or Wild Service tree in full autumn colour.
Crafts & skills - Throughout the summer months farmers conduct farm walks showing other farmers their crops and livestock. There is always much debate as to the best way. Now the public can participate in similar walks by visiting a farm on Open Farm Sunday in June.
Flora - Wild garlic.
Buildings - A new grain store takes shape.
Fauna - A cock pheasant in grassland.
Woodland - Managed deciduous woodland
Conservation - Young trees bagged and ready for planting.
Crafts & skills - Charcoal production
Crafts & skills - Hazel hurdle
Water features - A new pond with liner under construction
Buildings - Fertiliser stored in an open fronted barn.
Conservation - A new roadside hedge
Water features - Over flow from a dam.
Buildings - Pouring the foundations for the uprights of a new barn.
Woodland - Young Scots pine plantation
Linear features - Dense well managed hedgerows cut to an A shape
Linear features - A recently planted hedge with fence protection and grass margins adjoining
Flora - A large toadstool in an oat crop in November.
Leisure - A hot air balloon trip is a great way to see the countryside on a summer's evening. Pilots follow strict rules when landing to avoid damaging crops.
Buildings - A barn floor its power floated to create a smooth finish on the concrete which makes for easier handling of the grain in store.
Flora - The Clustered Bellflower. This perennial grows on grassland on calcareous soils, it is common in the south and east of England but scarce or absent elsewhere in the UK.
Landscapes - Evening light in the Downs
Fauna - Gatekeeper butterfly
Flora - White helleborine
Crafts & skills - Fencing made from coppiced material. Coppicing is a traditional skill that has been practiced for 6000 years
Environmental schemes - A pollen and nectar mix is being grown to encourage insects and in particular bumblebees. Environmental crops like this can commonly be found in field corners and other places that are awkward for large-scale farm machinery.
Wastes - A large mound of compost that has been brought to a farm and is now being loaded for spreading.
Flora - Foxgloves and pollinating bee
Wastes - A compressed bale of fertiliser sacks, pallet mounted for easy transport.
Water features - River, river bank and meadows
Fauna - Meadow Brown butterfly on marjoram, an excellent nectar source.
Leisure - Trail plots at the Cereals Event
Fauna - A Speckled Wood butterfly.
Fauna - The Holly Blue butterfly, the larvae are commonly found on holly.
Conservation - A margin alongside a hedge provides an excellent wildlife habitat
Conservation - Wildflower mixes are being grown at an agricultural show for demonstration to farmers and other visitors.
Buildings - The control room of a biogas plant.
Leisure - Windsurfing
Buildings - The partly completed frame of a new grain store.
Leisure - The London Eye is a popular tourist attraction.
Conservation - Conservation headland in spring barley
Fauna - Bumblebee on Common Knapweed a downy or hairy perennial that grows in a wide range of grassy places.
Buildings - Laying a concrete floor in a barn. Note the plastic that prevents the concrete from trying to quickly and therefore cracking, and the steel mesh which reinforces the slab.
Fauna - A rat feeding on grassland. Rats live throughout the countryside in hedges and scrubby patches as well as in urban areas. Relatively few people are ever more than a few metres from a rat.
Woodland - A large coppiced whitebeam
Wastes - A stubble shortly after the application of compost. The compost is spread very finely and is easily incorporated into the soil.
Landscapes - The patchwork quilt that is the countryside.
Fauna - Common Blue butterfly
Landscapes - Summer light on deciduous woodland
Buildings - Church and characteristic yew tree
Fauna - Water boatmen using the surface tension of water to stay above the water.
Woodland - Young cone on a Larch tree.
Landscapes - House by the loch
Water features - River reflections
Leisure - Trial plots at an agricultural show
Flora - Cowslip
Landscapes - Harvest scene
Flora - Poppy
Fauna - Ringing an owl, the ring is loosely crimped to the leg. If the owl is found the ring number can be reported to the British Museum
Leisure - Cereal trial plots demonstrate different growing regimes to illustrate the effect on the crop. These plots have been grown at a specialist agricultural event.
Buildings - The digester of a biogas plant under construction.
Flora - Cowslips, a member of the primrose family
Woodland - Established Sitka spruce plantation now being thinned
Linear features - New hedgerow planted in 1995 in Hampshire
Flora - Early purple orchid making the most of early spring sunlight before shading by the woodland canopy occurs later in the year.
Woodland - The flowers of the wild cherry tree.
Flora - Primroses on the woodland floor.
Fauna - The Comma butterfly with its distinctive wing outline.
Fauna - A Peacock butterfly enjoying spring sunshine
Fauna - Small White butterfly
Buildings - Construction detail of a replica iron age house using coppiced hazel
Fauna - Common blue butterfly feeding on sainfoin, a legume that was traditionally included in grass swards.
Flora - Cornflower, a once common arable weed is now rarely found.
Flora - A primrose flowering in April. Primroses are common in hedges, woods and other shady places
Conservation - Planting a young hedging plant into a notched hole
Conservation - Planting young hedging plants, note that the plants are kept in a plastic bag to prevent dehydration
Parks & gardens - A winter parkland setting.
Conservation - Notching a hole into the ground to take a young hedging plant
Water features - A small pond adjoining woodland.
Environmental schemes - A pollen and nectar mix being grown in a field corner under the Entry Level Scheme (ELS).
Fauna - A bee killer wasp with prey slung underneath its body. The bee is captured and immobilised by the wasp before being transported to the wasps underground nest.
Buildings - Laying a barn floor. Concrete is pumped via a hydraulic rig.
Environmental schemes - A pollen and nectar mix in a field corner as part of an Entry Level Scheme (ELS). Since its introduction in 2005, ELS has been widely adopted with over 5,000,000 hectares included by 2008.
Conservation - A notching spade for planting young trees and shrubs
Linear features - Long shadows are cast from a Sussex rew - a traditional tall wide hedge.
Flora - Harebells flowering in August. Harebells are an attractive plant of dry grassy places.
Landscapes - Beech tree amidst farmland landscape
Flora - Wild garlic in spring
Landscapes - Cornish wind farm.
Conservation - Coppiced sweet chestnut stool
Conservation - Establishing a new hedge - here weeds are being sprayed off to provide a better growing habitat for the new hedge
Flora - Woodland buttercup in spring
Woodland - Yew trees in coniferous woodland. Note the barren woodland floor
Buildings - Wind turbines with winter barley blowing in the wind
Woodland - Dogs mercury carpeting the woodland floor
Flora - Cornflowers are now quite rare in the countryside. This one is found in a conservation headland
Woodland - Ancient oak woodland on the west coast of Scotland
Flora - Country colours - wild flowers
Flora - Butchers broom, wild garlic and bluebells in ancient woodland
Woodland - Yew tree in the middle of a beech plantation
Flora - Common spotted orchid
Woodland - Recently thinned beech woodland
Linear features - Recently planted hedge
Conservation - Young hedging plant with control of weeds by a pesticide
Wastes - Green waste from an urban recycling centre that has been composted is now being spread by a contractor on farmland.
Conservation - Young hedging plant protected by a shelter
Flora - Corn cockle after rain
Water features - This restored pond is an excellent wildlife habitat
Woodland - 20 year old coniferous plantation showing light penetration after thinning
Landscapes - Pylons in the countryside. Image Copyright FACE.
Woodland - Ancient oak woodland on the west coast of Scotland
Flora - Dandelion
Wastes - Spreading composted green waste as a fertiliser on farmland.
Woodland - Woodland ride through 8 year old Sitka spruce plantation
Woodland - 20 year old Sitka spruce plantation on the west coast of Scotland
Woodland - 20 year old Sitka spruce in Argyle
Crafts & skills - Chopping logs.
Flora - Dog rose in a recently planted hedgerow
Woodland - Birch trees are a pioneer crop that have invaded this heathland
Water features - Ponds are important wildlife habitats. Image Copyright FACE.
Flora - Early purple orchid
Water features - Flooded arable land
Landscapes - Recently rolled grassland
Linear features - A rich Cornish hedge. The hedge is constructed of large stones removed over time from the field and then covered with soil
Water features - A new farm reservoir that acts as a wildlife haven is being visited by a group of farmers on a farm tour
Woodland - Wild garlic and beech woodland in evening light
Landscapes - Woodland and farmland colours
Woodland - Skyward view in woodland
Wastes - Green waste from an urban recycling centre is composted and then distributed for use as fertiliser on farmland.
Buildings - Processing farm timber for use in the construction of a building
Woodland - Winter scene in coppiced woodland
Landscapes - Heath landscape with birch and pine
Flora - Poppy in a conservation headland
Flora - Detail of the poppy flower.
Flora - Bull rushes on a recently created farm pond. Colonisation of new habitats can be surprisingly quick.
Flora - Meadow buttercups are prominent feature of permanent pasture.
Woodland - Recently coppiced woodland showing new growth on a hazel stool and cut materials in the foreground
Flora - Ox eye daisies blowing in the wind in pasture rich with wild flowers.
Flora - Colt's-foot, one of the spring's earliest flowers.
Flora - Snowdrops herald the arrival of spring.
Fauna - The Gatekeeper butterfly. Common along sheltered hedgerows and in woodland glades, the Gatekeeper is seen here feeding on Marjoram.
Flora - Ragged Robin a colourful plant of damp and marshy places.
Buildings - An aerial view of terraced housing.
Flora - Sainfoin growing in a conservation headland.
Flora - Southern Marsh orchid.
Flora - A Southern Marsh orchid growing by a newly created farm pond.
Leisure - The London Eye.
Crafts & Skills - Technology transfer. A farm open day provides these farmers with an opportunity to discuss the latest environmental research.
Flora - Barren strawberry on a woodland edge.
Fauna - Young Barn Owls utilising a nest box.
Fauna - Dragonflies are commonly seen perching reeds where they may rest for some time before suddenly darting out to snatch prey.
Buildings - A new grain store under construction.
Buildings - First steps in erection of a new building.
Crafts & skills - A farm walk in progress discussing conservation matters.
Crafts & skills - Discussing grassland management on a farm walk.
Fauna - A badger enjoying spilt grain after harvest.
Buildings - Maize in the foreground is ensiled to produce a green fuel stock for this biogas plant.
Fauna - Peacock butterfly catching sunlight in April.
Woodland - Emerging leaves of a beech tree.
Flora - Dandelions are widespread and flower between April and June.
Landscapes - Sunset in the countryside.
Conservation - Conservation headland
Flora - Prickly Poppy growing in a field of peas.
Flora - Old man's beard
Flora - A rich grassland habitat being sympathetically managed by the farmer.
Woodland - Forest view
Buildings - Poly tunnels provide effective housing for lambing sheep in cold conditions
Landscapes - Bales of fun
Woodland - Highland forestry consisting larch and spruce
Buildings - Landscaping detail behind a new barn with recently sown grass seed now emerging.
Woodland - Woodland rides are important for access and diversity
Leisure - A farm visit looking at conservation work
Landscapes - Wind turbines in the farmed environment.
Conservation - A stone curlew plot in the middle of a large arable field
Flora - Pyramid orchids in set-aside.
Leisure - Beltain festival at Butser Ancient Farm
Conservation - This plot which has been designed for stone curlews is also favoured by lapwings
Leisure - Beltain festival at Butser Ancient Farm
Leisure - The excellent cooking characteristics of English charcoal lend themselves to BBQs
Flora - Cornflower in barley
Flora - Pyramid orchid
Landscapes - Prominent clump of beech trees
Flora - Bull rushes
Crafts & skills - Charcoal kilns under way
Woodland - Dense Sitka spruce
Flora - Herb Robert a common woodland plant
Crafts & skills - Coppicing a derelict hazel stool. The chainsaw operator will cut the tree to within a few inches of ground level. This encourages strong re-growth
Rights of way - Rights of way regularly cross grassland utilised by ewes and lambs. Particular care must be taken by dog owners at this time of year.
Fauna - A male pheasant on a stubble in late autumn.
Leisure - Trial plots demonstrating different growing regimes to illustrate the effect on the crop.
Landscapes - Electricity pylons and a crop of oats.
Buildings - A traditional barn undergoing conversion to a farm shop and gallery.
Flora - Cow slips in abundance
Flora - A Dandelion In grassland.
Flora - This fallen hawthorn tree has been killed by a honey fungus attack
Crafts & skills - A farming group discusses woodland management.
Woodland - Young plantation of broadleaved trees on a set aside strip
Flora - Cowslips in downland.
Crafts & skills - Traditional hurdle being used to create a terrace
Buildings - Iron age round house at Butser Ancient Farm
Buildings - Iron age house under construction at Butser Ancient Farm
Woodland - Forestry on shores of a loch
Woodland - An emerging lime leaf in spring
Woodland - Coppiced woodland showing young hazel with oak standards
Flora - Old man's beard or travelers joy graces many a hedgerow.
Flora - Teasel.
Flora - Corn marigold in stubble
Fauna - A pheasant takes cover in a crop.
Linear features - Newly planted hedge showing spiral protection and new fence
Leisure - The Dancing Diggers at the Royal Show
Woodland - Woodland ride in young deciduous woodland
Woodland - Spring bluebells in coppice woodland
Woodland - Leaf detail of Sitka spruce
Flora - Cowslip in spring
Flora - Shaggy ink cap in grass
Water features - Water lillies on a pond
Linear features - An aerial view of a motorway junction.
Landscapes - Rough grazing in an upland environment
Landscapes - Walls, trees and mountains
Water features - Well managed edge to a dyke buffering farming activity and providing good habitat
Leisure - Eden Project in Cornwall.
Landscapes - Vibrant colours; the yellow of oilseed rape mixes with the red of poppies
Woodland - The view skywards through an ancient coppiced lime tree that is at least 1000 years old
Flora - Hazel catkins
Woodland - A young poplar plantation at 5 years of age
Flora - Corn marigold in evening light
Buildings - The Houses of Parliament.
Linear features - Barbed wire
Flora - Dog rose with familiar hips or berries
Woodland - A poplar plantation.
Buildings - A small roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm
Woodland - Young Sitka spruce plantation about 8 years old
Woodland - Coppiced ash stool
Woodland - Ancient coppiced lime tree
Woodland - Winter scene in coppiced woodland.
Flora - Water droplet on twig.
Fauna - A rabbit at grassland.
Woodland - Yew and whitebeam woodland in May
Woodland - View of young beech in mixed woodland
Landscapes - In continental Europe, crown lifting of trees is common whereas in the UK it is a much rarer practice.
Crafts & skills - Charcoal burning
Parks & gardens - Autumn colours
Flora - Pyramid orchid in restored chalk grassland
Linear features - A recently planted hedge with a grass and wildflower margin separates arable and grassland areas
Woodland - Larch woodland in Scotland
Woodland - Young woodland trees in a shelter belt
Buildings - Electricity pylons
Woodland - Skyward view in mature coniferous woodland
Buildings - For many centuries, churches and cathedrals were the most prominent and important buildings in the countryside.
Water features - An aerial view of a developed coastline.
Buildings - Laying a barn floor. Concrete is pumped via a hydraulic rig to the back of the building.
Buildings - Church of Saxon origin.
Woodland - Ancient silver birch trees
Buildings - Modern agricultural building
Landscapes - Winter light on a Southern landscape.
Woodland - Hazel stool that has been uncut for many years
Linear features - A new hedge
Linear features - New hedgerow in Hampshire
Conservation - A very old hollow yew tree. Photo by Nic Heasman.
Flora - Bee orchid. Photo courtesy Nic Heasman
Buildings - A small Saxon building. Photo courtesy Nic Heasman.
Buildings - A Saxon house. Photo courtesy Nic Heasman.
Leisure - Cycling in the countryside. Photo courtesy Nic Heasman.
Flora - Toadstool
Buildings - Traditional farm building. Image Copyright FACE.
History - Saxon grave, photo courtesy Nic Heasman
Flora - Woodland anemones. Photo courtesy Nic Heasman.
Buildings - A coastal promenade
Buildings - An aerial view of the small rural town.
Woodland - Winter's morning in ancient woodland
Woodland - Large ash stool in ancient woodland
Landscapes - West coast landscape
Woodland - Charcoal kiln at the start of a burn
Crafts & skills - Charcoal kiln with timber stacked ready for loading
Woodland - Derelict storm blown woodland
Woodland - Coppiced hazel alongside a woodland ride. Note how the wild garlic does not grow in the shade
Landscapes - November light on a young cereal crop
Flora - Primroses on a woodland boundary
Landscapes - Traditional downland landscape rich with cowslips
Parks & gardens - Morning light on water trough in parkland
Woodland - Derelict coppiced woodland showing uncut stools
Buildings - High urban population densities can be realised through terraced housing.

Crops

Margins - A margin strip.
Cereal crops - Harvesting Barley.
Margins - Conservation margin strip alongside a woodland.
Margins - Grass margins around fields provide easy access and important areas of conservation that encourage biodiversity.
Margins - A field margin on an Autumn's day.
Margins - A farm track through a field margin.
Margins - A field margin that straddles a newly planted copse.
Margins - The margin strip is still clearly visible even after a heavy snow fall.
Margins - A field margin sown with wildflower seed mix alongside a crop of Oil Seed Rape.
Protein crops - The Pea transport truck being loaded.
Protein crops - A view from above the Pea hopper looking down onto the waiting JCB.
Protein crops - The Peas are now loaded from the hopper into a bucket to be loaded onto the waiting transport truck.
Protein crops - The freshly washed Peas are now on the final stages of their journey before being transported.
Protein crops - The Peas washing unit.
Protein crops - The Peas are turned like a washing machine to help clean the Peas.
Margins - A 10 meter wide margin strip on a fields headland.
Margins - A rich wildflower mix.
Cereal crops - Spring Barley now ready to be harvested. Notice how the seed heads are pointing down, an indicator that the crop is ready.
Cereal crops - Tramlines are still clearly visible in the Spring Barley crop right up to harvest time.
Cereal crops - Harvesting Barley.
Margins - A fresh new field margin.
Margins - A 15 meter wide field margin.
Margins - Conservation margin strip alongside a hedgerow.
Margins - A wildflower field margin is ideal for attracting wildlife to the farm.
Protein crops - A view of from the top of the conveyor belt system.
Margins - Wildflower meadows provides a rich habitat for farm wildlife.
Margins - Wild flowers in a field margin.
Margins - A wildflower meadow.
Margins - A crop of Oil Seed Rape surrounded by a wildflower field margin.
Margins - A wildflower field margin.
Margins - A field margin sown with wildflower seed mix alongside a crop of Oil Seed Rape. This provides essential food for birds and bees.
Margins - A field margin left as fallow ground.
Storage - Grain dryer is situated next to the grain store to enable the conveyor belt to transport the freshly dried grain into the store.
Fallow ground - Fallow ground has been left for ground nesting birds.
Protein crops - Close up of Pea plant.
Protein crops - Peas plants, notice the 5 metre buffer strip surrounding the crop.
Protein crops - Pea plants.
Protein crops - Peas pods are now close to being ready for harvest.
Protein crops - A view inside the Peas washing unit.
Protein crops - Detail of a Pea pod.
Cover crops - Close up of cover crop.
Storage - Grain dryer at work drying the grain before it goes into store.
Storage - The grain store showing concrete partitions.
Storage - The grain dryer shadow cast against a grain store.
Cultivations - Discing the soil consolidates the ground for the next stage in cultivation, Drilling seeds.
Root crops - Close up view of the onion bulb before harvesting begins.
Cultivations - Discing the soil first makes it easier for the Drilling machine to plant the seeds for the next crop.
Protein crops - Detail of the Pea plant flowering.
Protein crops - Two Vining Pea combine harvesters working in tandem to harvest the crop.
Cereal crops - Young Grain Maize plant.
Protein crops - The Peas are now being taken up by the conveyor belt to the washing unit.
Protein crops - Here the Pea crop is being separated from any stray Pea pods picked up in the harvesting process.
Protein crops - The Pea hopper and in the distance the conveyor belt for transporting the Peas into the processing plant.
Protein crops - The peas have now arrived at the processing plant. Here the peas are being loaded into a hopper and onto a conveyor belt for its journey into the processing machine.
Protein crops - This image shows a Pea tenderising machine. The farmer needs to check the Peas are tender enough before harvesting can begin.
Fallow ground - Fallow ground enables ground nesting birds to thrive in a farmed environment.
Protein crops - Close up of the Pea combine harvester head unit.
Cover crops - Cover crops enable wildlife to have food even in the most harsh conditions.
Cereal crops - Grain Maize.
Cover crops - Close up of cover crop.
Cover crops - Cover crops enable food to be available for wildlife all year round.
Cover crops - Sunflowers are great at producing seeds for birds.
Cover crops - Sunflowers are great at producing seeds for birds that last well into the winter.
Protein crops - A full view of the Peas processing unit.
Protein crops - Unloading the freshly harvested Pea crop form the combine harvester. The Peas will now be taken to the processing plant.
Cereal crops - Drilling a crop of Winter Wheat.
Oilseeds - Close up detailing a flowering head of the Winter Oil Seed Rape crop.
Cover crops - Cover crop of Kale.
Grassland - Grassland rich chalk downland.
Energy crops - CHP (Combined Heat and Power) unit capable of running on biomass, principally wood chips.
Cereal crops - Spraying Winter Oats.
Horticultural crops - Cabbage.
Cereal crops - Rear view of Drilling a crop of Winter Wheat.
Horticultural crops - The lettuce crop is planted in neat equally distance rows to help with later cultivations.
Cereal crops - Mini combine harvesting crop trial plots.
Oilseeds - Harvesting Winter Oil Seed Rape.
Oilseeds - Close up of the Winter Oil Seed Rape seed pod. Notice how small each seed is.
Oilseeds - Close up of the Winter Oil Seed Rape crop being harvested.
Oilseeds - Harvesting is underway on the Winter Oil Seed Rape crop.
Oilseeds - A bird scarer in a Winter Oil Seed Rape crop.
Cereal crops - The combine harvester using its auto leveling to deal with uneven ground in the Winter Wheat crop.
Horticultural crops - "There's always one"
Root crops - Foxes eye view of the young onion crop.
Cover crops - Cover crop.
Cereal crops - The combine harvester following the hedgerow.
Root crops - The onion crop is now ready to be harvested.
Root crops - Close up view of the onion base.
Fodder - Sheep enjoying fresh fodder.
Horticultural crops - A freshly harvested lettuce ready for transport.
Horticultural crops - Rows and rows of cabbage ready to be harvested.
Horticultural crops - Birds eye view of the young lettuce crop.
Horticultural crops - The lettuce crop is now maturing fast.
Horticultural crops - Mechanical weeding of the crop with a cultivator.
Horticultural crops - Different varieties of lettuce being grown in the same field.
Horticultural crops - The lettuce crop is well underway in August. Tramlines are clearly visible, the cultivation machines will use these to tender to the crop until harvest time.
Horticultural crops - Lettuces being watered using long boom arms to reach over the crop.
Root crops - Onions planted in neat rows to help future cultivations.
Cereal crops - A foxes eye view through a crop of Spring Barley.
Cereal crops - The young Spring Barley crop now emerging.
Cereal crops - Young Spring Barley crop.
Cereal crops - Tramlines through a young Spring Barley crop.
Cereal crops - A view of the combine head unit as it follows the cut Barley crop.
Cereal crops - Birds eye view of the young Spring Barley crop.
Cereal crops - Harvesting Barley.
Cereal crops - Side on view as the combine harvests Spring Wheat.
Cereal crops - Tramlines in a field of Spring Barley.
Cereal crops - A young Spring Barley crop.
Cereal crops - Harvesting the Barley crop can continue well into the evening.
Cereal crops - Barley ready for harvesting.
Oilseeds - Spraying in the thick of a Winter Oil Seed Rape crop.
Horticultural crops - Close up of the cabbage crop.
Cereal crops - Combining a field of Barley.
Cereal crops - Harvesting Barley. Notice the tilt to the combine head unit. The combine has an auto leveling system to keep it level whilst the head unit can follow the contours of the land.
Cereal crops - Chalk downland with a young Spring Barley crop in the foreground.
Cereal crops - Close up of Spring Wheat.
Oilseeds - Trackway looking out into a field of Winter Oil Seed Rape.
Cereal crops - A close up of the fresh green Spring Barley crop.
Oilseeds - Public right of way through a field of Winter Oil Seed Rape.
Cereal crops - Harvesting Spring Wheat.
Oilseeds - The dead sunflower crop now providing food for birds in harsh winter conditions.
Cereal crops - A stack of straw on English chalk downland ready to be collected.
Cereal crops - Spraying a crop of Spring Wheat.
Oilseeds - Young Sunflower plant ready for planting.
Cereal crops - Field of Spring Wheat.
Oilseeds - Drilling the seeds for the Winter Oil Seed Rape crop.
Cereal crops - Drivers point of view as Spring Wheat is being unloaded into the waiting trailer.
Cereal crops - Drivers point of view overlooking a field of Spring Wheat.
Cereal crops - Harvesting Spring Wheat on chalk downland.
Cereal crops - Unloading harvested Spring Wheat. The trailer will take the freshly harvested crop off to the grain store for drying.
Cereal crops - Big bailer collecting up the straw to make into bales.
Cereal crops - Durum wheat
Horticultural crops - Plugs of young lettuce plants at about two weeks of age and now ready for field planting.
Cultivations - Mechanical harrowing to remove weeds in a lettuce crop. At the same time slug pellets are applied between the plants.
Horticultural crops - Planting lettuces. A trailed rig spans a number of beds whilst operatives load lettuce plugs for planting. The tractor is remotely controlled.
Cereal crops - Wheat in evening sunlight
Horticultural crops - Young lettuce plants growing in beds during the summer months.
Cover crops - A sunflower cover crop continues to provide a food resource deep into winter helping to maintain farmland birds.
Root crops - Irrigating a crop of potatoes.
Cereal crops - Winter wheat. Wheat is a constituent of many thousands of different foodstuffs.
Cultivations - Combining a crop of barley
Protein crops - Spring beans illustrating pod detail.
Cereal crops - Spring sown barley just before harvest. Note the characteristic awns of the barley plant.
Oilseeds - Linseed a month after flowering.
Cultivations - Ploughing heavy clay soils
Set aside - Marjoram and other flora in set-aside. The environmental benefits of set-aside have been long recognised by UKagriculture.com and more recently by Government and other industry stakeholders.
Forage crops - Strip grazing with an electric fence
Grassland - Flowering grasses.
Cultivations - Ploughing with a furrow press attached. The press consolidates the loose ground that has been turned over by the plough
Cultivations - Two ploughs plough in front of the drill. This allows the drill to operate successfully in both wet and dry conditions
Cereal crops - An oat plant in flower.
Cultivations - Creating a conservation headland, the herbicide is not applied to the headland
Margins - Grass margins around fields provide access and important wildlife areas
Cereal crops - Randomised trial plots displaying wheat varieties.
Horticultural crops - Vineyard with mature vines and grape crop
Forage crops - Forage maize being cut, chopped and carted
Horticultural crops - Asparagus freshly picked
Cultivations - Fungicide application to a crop of wheat. Note the wildflower and conservation margins
Cultivations - Drilling is under way
Alternatives - Poppies are a minority crop grown only on a small acreage throughout the UK. They are grown for pharmaceutical purposes and have no narcotic characteristics.
Storage - Germination test on barley determines suitability of crop for malting
Cultivations - A plough and press in operation, but trailed press helps consolidate the ploughed ground and reduces the number of passes required by the tractor.
Cereal crops - A crop of millet being grown for birdseed.
Storage - Modern purpose built co-operative grain store
Cultivations - Forage harvesting cut grass to produce silage
Storage - Grain trailer unloading into a grain pit
Alternatives - Poppies grown for pharmaceutical use.
Cultivations - Rolling consolidates the ground before drilling commences
Cereal crops - A big bale of barley straw.
Protein crops - Spring beans shortly after emergence.
Protein crops - Field beans about 2 months before combining.
Grassland - Hay making - collecting the bales
Protein crops - Lupins are grown for their protein seeds which are a good alternative to soya.
Root crops - Sugar beet - developing roots. Photograph: courtesy and copyright British Sugar
Cereal crops - Sorghum in flower. The crop is an important staple in Asia and Africa but is rarely found in the UK where the temperature is generally too low. It is sometimes seen around game cover plots because it deters deer.
Cereal crops - Detail of the oat panicle and forming grain.
Cereal crops - Big bales of barley straw in a downland setting.
Oilseeds - The familiar blue flowers of the linseed crop.
Cereal crops - Round bales of spring barley straw. Straw is largely used for bedding, but sometimes as a feed, particularly for cattle.
Oilseeds - The flowers of oilseed rape
Cereal crops - Durum wheat in November. Relatively little durum wheat is grown in the UK - this crop is destined for pasta.
Cultivations - Drilling wheat.
Root crops - Onion harvest. After the tops have been removed, the onions are rowed up before lifting and storage.
Grassland - Flowering grasses can be staggeringly beautiful as this Cocksfoot illustrates.
Margins - A conservation headland with adjoining wildflower margin in early summer
Cover crops - Sorghum can be grown to produce a dense cover crop to shelter wildlife. Here the plant is in flower.
Grassland - Cut grass for silage making, early in the season. The grass will be picked up conserved in a clamp.
Cereal crops - Oats that are ready for harvest.
Cereal crops - Ears of wheat about six weeks before harvest.
Cultivations - Spreading fibrophos fertiliser onto wheat.
Horticultural crops - A bramley apple ripens in October sunlight.
Cultivations - Lifting potatoes
Forage crops - Cutting grass for haymaking the traditional way. Finger cutters like this are now rarely seen.
Oilseeds - Poppies growing freely in a crop of winter oilseed rape.
Cereal crops - The panicle of the oat crop.
Cover crops - A colourful mix of maize and linseed in a game the cover crop.
Root crops - An emerging potato crop in May. Potatoes are planted into ridges so that they could be lifted with minimal effort.
Forage crops - A hay bob turns the hay. Hay is only baled when the crop has dried out otherwise it will sweat and go mouldy. Hay bobs turn the crop to speed up the wilting process.
Grassland - Meadow grassland, a grasshoppers view!
Oilseeds - Poppies dominate a crop of oilseed rape.
Grassland - Cut grass for silage making (foreground) as part of a typical farmland matrix of crops.
Cereal crops - Detail of the panicle of oats in flower.
Forage crops - Foraging a maize crop destined for silage
Cereal crops - The ears of the wheat plant. The grain is beginning to fill as harvest draws near - it is important for farmers to keep the crop free of disease so that yield is not compromised.
Cover crops - A mustard crop being grown as game cover.
Horticultural crops - Watercress beds.
Oilseeds - Biodiesel plant. When cars run on biodiesel the exhaust smells of fish and chips!
Cultivations - Fertiliser prills in a cereal crop. The prills are the small white balls that break down to supply the crop with nitrogen.
Cover crops - Phacelia grown to provide a habitat / food source for insects. It is recognised by its blue flowers which appear to unfurl.
Cereal crops - Flooded arable land.
Energy crops - A Talbot combined heat and power (CHP) unit that uses energy crops to produce heat and electricity.
Cereal crops - Tramlines help farmers to precisely apply expensive fertiliser and sprays.
Root crops - Sugar beet. Photograph: courtesy and copyright British Sugar
Oilseeds - Oilseed rape at harvest. The crop may be 1.5 metres tall
Cereal crops - Ears of wheat in evening light
Storage - A sieve measures the number of small grains in a sample
Cereal crops - Grain maize - the corn of cornflakes.
Cereal crops - Wild oats are a troublesome weed that affect cereal crops reducing yield and lowering the quality of the harvested crop. In this image the wild oats are taller than the wheat crop and it is possible for the farmer to remove them by hand.
Cereal crops - The detail of the oat crop showing the top grains of the panicle.
Cereal crops - Germinating seed of spring barley
Set aside - Evening light on set aside. This undisturbed habitat is a favorite with skylarks
Horticultural crops - Young lettuce plants growing in raised beds.
Cover crops - A strip of Triticale being used for game cover and as a wild bird food. Unharvested cereals are an important food supply for birds during the winter months.
Horticultural crops - The tractor trailed rig used for the planting of lettuces.
Forage crops - Haymaking, traditional small bales are now rarely used in agriculture although they are widely used throughout the equine world.
Oilseeds - The familiar colours of oilseed rape
Cereal crops - The ear of wheat emerging from the stem
Cultivations - Combining a crop of oilseed rape
Protein crops - A crop of peas in flower. Note the tendrils that search for support and help plant to climb.
Cultivations - Mowing grass for silage making
Grassland - Mowing grass for hay
Oilseeds - A tramline through oilseed rape
Margins - Spring weed control at the margin of the crop prevents weed ingress into the cropping area and simultaneously provides an additional habitat for farm wildlife.
Oilseeds - Oilseed rape in flower
Oilseeds - A crop of borage, grown for its oil.
Cereal crops - Sprouted ears in a wheat crop after a long period of rain in August and September. When this crop is harvested the quality of the crop have been lost and it will only be suitable for animal feed.
Forage crops - The cob of the maize plant shortly before ensiling.
Cover crops - The striking colours of Quinoa, a popular crop with farmers looking to provide a large volume of feed to farmland birds.
Cultivations - Special trays and measures are used to calibrate fertiliser spreaders to ensure accuracy
Cultivations - Windrowing bulb onions prior to lifting.
Cultivations - Planting potatoes
Protein crops - Pod detail of a pea crop
Cereal crops - Harvesting a crop of winter oats
Cultivations - Pesticide hopper for incorporating pesticides into the spray tank
Protein crops - Combine or dried peas in a pod
Set aside - A tall stubble provides protection for birds and mammals in cold conditions
Grassland - A productive grass and clover sward
Cereal crops - Frost covers a young wheat crop. Frosts provide useful control of aphids which are responsible for spreading disease in cereal crops through the autumn months.
Horticultural crops - Irrigating bulb onions.
Horticultural crops - Apple blossom
Root crops - Potatoes, the crop harvested
Horticultural crops - An apple orchard
Oilseeds - Oilseed rape in flower
Cultivations - Combining field beans
Oilseeds - Lavender crops being grown for oil.
Horticultural crops - Asparagus at the fern stage
Horticultural crops - Vineyard with mature vines
Protein crops - Field beans in flower
Horticultural crops - Vegetable crops being grown early in the season under plastic covers
Grassland - Cutting turf
Root crops - Sugar beet in Cambridgeshire
Cereal crops - The barley crop in flower
Grassland - Hay bales
Cereal crops - Stubble in winter
Grassland - Turning the hay prior to baling
Grassland - Turf cutting
Cultivations - Prills of nitrogen fertiliser
Cultivations - Spraying a crop of wheat.
Protein crops - A field of winter beans
Root crops - Potatoes
Set aside - Set aside that followed a conservation headland in a crop.
Cultivations - Tramlines through a field. Tramlines are essential to ensure accurate application of fertiliser and pesticides
Cereal crops - Grain maize just prior to harvest.
Oilseeds - A crop of linseed in flower
Cultivations - Forage harvesting grass for silage making
Grassland - Silage making. The forage harvester trails its own trailer which is dropped off and replaced when full
Grassland - A big bale having been rolled up is dropped out of the baling chamber
Protein crops - Hemp being grown for fibre
Grassland - A good crop of grass ready for cutting and silage making
Cultivations - Ploughing often attracts feeding seagulls
Cereal crops - Harvesting cereal crops
Forage crops - Maize being grown for silage making
Grassland - Multi use of a tractor, bale grab, baler and collector at hay making time
Protein crops - A trial plot of lupins
Horticultural crops - Asparagus spears just before cutting.
Forage crops - Maize being grown for silage
Oilseeds - Winter oilseed rape in a frosted state in January
Cultivations - Combining field beans
Horticultural crops - A grafted apple tree onto a suitable rootstock
Root crops - A crop of potatoes
Protein crops - Pea pods
Horticultural crops - Courgettes under cover
Horticultural crops - Asparagus picked and awaiting collection from the field.
Cereal crops - Emmer wheat from the iron age. Photograph: courtesy and copyright Butser Ancient Farm
Cereal crops - Spring barley in evening light on the day of combining
Horticultural crops - Runner beans
Oilseeds - Linseed flower after rain
Cultivations - Spraying a cereal crop. The ideal conditions are found with a light breeze in cool conditions
Horticultural crops - Hand picking Iceberg lettuce.
Cultivations - Combining a crop of oats in a trial plot.
Protein crops - Peas in the pod
Forage crops - A crop of kale that will be used to feed cattle through the winter months.
Cultivations - Accurate measurement of seed that is being drilled into wheat trial plots.
Cultivations - A seed drill being used for establishment of trial plots. Specialised drills such as this allow very accurate sowing of the seeds which is a prerequisite if useful information is to be determined at harvest.
Cultivations - Drilling trial plots.
Cover crops - Buckwheat, a plant that is now commonly found in conservation mixes but which through history, has been widely cultivated.
Root crops - A stubble turnip grown in a cereal stubble as fodder for sheep
Cover crops - A crop of millet being grown the game and wild bird cover.
Energy crops - A trial plot growing Miscanthus, also known as Elephant grass. When established Miscanthus is cut annually in February having reached a height of 3 m. When chipped and shredded the crop can be used in biomass heating systems.
Cultivations - Many modern pesticides are technically harmless and do not even qualify under COSHH. This herbicide is applied at just a few grams per hectare
Cultivations - Nitrogen fertiliser is usually delivered in half tonne bags
Cultivations - Winter ploughing
Cereal crops - Millet. An uncommon crop in the United Kingdom, millet is largely grown in conservation and game cover plots. Here, the crop is being grown as a pure stand for seed.
Cover crops - Canary grass is sometimes included in conservation mixes for its seed and habitat.
Oilseeds - The flower of the sunflower plant shortly before petal emergence. Sunflowers are increasingly widely grown in the UK, their seeds being used for vegetable oil production or for inclusion in bird feed mixes.
Cereal crops - Trial plots are being established for research purposes. Different treatments of input are applied to a number of varieties of wheat and the results are analysed at harvest.
Forage crops - Hay bales awaiting collection on a fine summer's day.
Cultivations - Compound fertiliser released from bags and filling the fertiliser spreader hopper
Root crops - Bulb onions ready for lifting.
Cultivations - Lifting bulb onions. The onions are first windrowed before lifting and transporting to store.
Cover crops - The flower of the chicory plant.
Cereal crops - The male part of the maize plant producing pollen.
Margins - Recent weed control has left a sterile strip adjoining the crop. This kind of weed control is usually carried out using a quad bike.
Protein crops - Lupins are a legume that can provide a boost to soil nitrogen levels.
Cover crops - A quick growing crop that can produce lots of seed in difficult conditions and is often included in game cover and wild bird mixes.
Grassland - Cowslips in unimproved grassland.
Cereal crops - A crop of triticale.
Cereal crops - A crop of spring barley showing awn, ear and leaf detail.
Cereal crops - The grains of buckwheat. Although grown in parts of Asia as a food crop, in the UK its use is largely restricted to cover crops for game or farmland birds.
Cereal crops - The grains of the maize crop. Grain maize is not widely grown in the UK because of the late harvesting date of the mature crop, often from the middle of October onwards.
Cover crops - A mixture of kale and quinoa in a cover plot designed to provide habitat and food for farmland birds.
Margins - A wildflower margin adjoins a wheat crop.
Horticultural crops - A young crop of bulb onions.
Cereal crops - Evening light of wheat crop.
Grassland - Oxeye daisies in a hay meadow. Common throughout the UK, Oxeye daisies flower between May and September.
Margins - Grass weed control at the edge of the crop can prevent troublesome weeds like sterile brome from spreading through the cropping area.
Oilseeds - Charlock, a native weed which is a problem in oilseed rape crops.
Margins - Cornflower in a conservation margin
Cultivations - Establishing a crop of forage maize with precision drill.
Cereal crops - Snow covering a cereal crop. Snow provides the crop with protection from cold winds.
Cereal crops - Straw can be an important by-product on arable farms close to livestock producing areas. Barley and oat straw are regularly baled and can be used for both bedding and feed.
Cultivations - Applying nitrogen fertiliser to a crop of winter wheat
Grassland - After a silage clamp has been built it is covered with a plastic sheet and held down by tyres
Grassland - Silage making, the forage harvester chops and blows the grass into the trailer
Cultivations - Rolling a recently sown crop with a flat roll. Flat rollers leave a smooth soil surface whereas Cambridge rollers leave a ridged soil surface. Each type of roller has its place in different. Conditions.
Cereal crops - Detail of wheat showing maturing grains
Storage - Grain silos
Cultivations - Sugar beet harvester in operation. Photograph: courtesy and copyright British Sugar
Cover crops - The flowers of borage, an annual that is often grown as part of a mix for wildlife benefit or as game cover. Borage can sometimes be found in the countryside as a pure crop.
Cereal crops - An ear of spring barley
Grassland - Harvesting the seeds of wild flowers and grasses for use as part of a project to recolonise nearby arable land that is being reverted to grassland.
Oilseeds - Oilseed rape - seeds in a pod
Oilseeds - The flowers of oilseed rape
Margins - Conservation headland and grass margin provide a good feeding area for wildlife
Oilseeds - Aphid infestation on the pods of oilseed rape
Grassland - Big bales for silage being transported from the field to the wrapping machine
Cereal crops - Wheat receiving a fungicide application to control disease
Grassland - Big bales of hay
Grassland - A bale wrapper. Big bales are wrapped in plastic making an airtight cover that allows the grass to ensile
Root crops - A precision drill used to drill sugar beet. Photograph: courtesy and copyright British Sugar
Cereal crops - Round bale of straw
Grassland - Grassland that has been recently cut for silage
Grassland - Making silage. Cut grass is picked up with a forage harvester and blown into a trailer
Root crops - Harvested sugar beet at a beet factory. Photograph: courtesy and copyright British Sugar
Grassland - A big baler picking up a cut crop of grass
Cereal crops - A tramline in wheat in April
Margins - A beetle bank following pylon lines
Margins - A grass and wildflower margin adjoining a wheat crop
Cereal crops - Leaf detail in wheat
Storage - Detail of grain barn floor showing slats that allow aeration of the crop for quality control
Cereal crops - Grain maize that is ripe and ready for harvest.
Cultivations - Spraying spring barley in June
Cereal crops - Combine harvesting grain maize.
Cultivations - Drilling a crop. Operators use marks cut into the soil to follow to ensure no missed areas in the crop
Cultivations - A pesticide store that is locked and bunded for security
Cereal crops - Winter oats on an autumn morning
Storage - Modern co-operative storage with grain lorry
Protein crops - Combine peas at harvest time
Cereal crops - Grain maize or "corn" harvested in late autumn in the UK.
Storage - Grain storage in a modern building. The grain is about 10 feet high
Oilseeds - A young oilseed rape plant showing insect damage. If the problem becomes very severe the crop may have to be treated
Grassland - Mown grass wilting in dry conditions before being ensiled
Cultivations - Harvesting grain maize. Note the header on the combine. Image Copyright FACE.
Protein crops - Young pea plants
Grassland - A crop of spring barley under sown with grass has been baled for big bale silage (wrapping yet to be undertaken)
Cultivations - Fertiliser spreader following the tramlines in a field
Protein crops - Pod and flower detail of the pea crop
Protein crops - Pods of the pea crop
Cereal crops - Baling straw
Cultivations - A wheat crop that has just been flat rolled to push stones under the ground
Oilseeds - Thick crop cover in oilseed rape prevents pigeon attack
Cereal crops - spring barley in June
Cultivations - Spraying a crop of wheat with a herbicide to control broadleaved weeds
Cultivations - Electronic controls on a modern sprayer allow complete control and ensure accuracy of application
Cereal crops - The maize cob exposed at flowering time.
Cultivations - Detail illustrating the affect of a flat roll on the soil.
Oilseeds - Sunflowers shortly before harvest.
Horticultural crops - Asparagus.
Cultivations - A press is dragged behind the plough consolidating recently ploughed ground to reduce moisture loss and improve the potential seedbed.
Cultivations - The summer landscape, crops, combining, countryside.
Cereal crops - Tramlines through a crop of spring barley
Cereal crops - Harvesting wheat.
Oilseeds - The seeds of linseed with a pound coin for scale. Linseed is grown for its oil content which has a range of industrial and domestic uses.
Grassland - Baling a crop of hay.
Cereal crops - A crop of oats just before harvesting. Oats are usually harvested after winter barley but before spring barley and wheat.
Cultivations - Fertilising a crop of oilseed rape. Fertilisers are mostly supplied in 600kg big bags.
Margins - Crop margins in the industrialised society!
Cultivations - Combining wheat and unloading the grain tank. It takes around two minutes to discharge 10 tonnes of wheat from the combine to the trailer.
Cover crops - A dense stand of sorghum provides good cover for wildlife.
Oilseeds - A linseed crop.
Grassland - Mixed grassland species provide a diversity of maturity and nutritional quality.
Forage crops - Bailing hay. The sledge that is trailed behind the baler collectors the bales into groups of eight.
Cereal crops - Young spring barley plant
Root crops - Given the reserve of the tuber, the potato crop grows quickly in May and the canopy soon provides complete ground cover.
Cultivations - Spraying a crop of oats with a herbicide to control weeds
Cover crops - Millet is commonly found in Asia and Africa rarely grown as a crop in the UK. However it is popular in game cover and conservation seed mixes.
Grassland - Sainfoin in a grassland crop.
Cultivations - Fertilising a crop with Fibrophos, a dried and treated chicken manure.
Cultivations - Spinning discs for the spreading of fertiliser.
Cereal crops - In May, cereal crops grow rapidly in preparation for flowering and subsequent grain fill.
Cereal crops - Frosted stubble.
Root crops - Stubble turnips are a useful forage crop for winter feeding to livestock
Cereal crops - A well established crop of winter wheat.
Oilseeds - Pollination of an oilseed rape plant
Cultivations - Tray testing the fertiliser spreader to ensure an even spread.
Cover crops - The flowers of Phacelia, a plant that is often grown in conservation mixes and which seems popular with bees.
Horticultural crops - Runner beans
Horticultural crops - A continental vineyard with hedgeless field systems in the distance
Cultivations - Spraying a cereal crop with a fungicide to prevent disease.
Margins - A wildflower margin adjoins a wheat crop. Margins like this are often grown by farmers who have entered environmental schemes.
Grassland - Grass in May shortly before silage making
Root crops - Potato crop with irrigated water in the rows
Root crops - A well established crop of sugarbeet.
Protein crops - Lucerne
Horticultural crops - Asparagus in the Autumn.
Cultivations - Ploughed ground that is being left to weather. If over wintered, frost and rain will break down the furrows and make subsequent cultivation easier.
Oilseeds - An autumn herbicide application is used to control weeds in oilseed rape.
Margins - Margins adjoining arable crops are important habitats and work best when there is a gradation from one habitat to another.
Root crops - Potatoes
Protein crops - Lupins in flower
Horticultural crops - Strawberries with plastic mulch
Root crops - Detail of growing bulb onions.
Cultivations - A tramline has been followed by the operator spraying a pre-emergence spray
Cultivations - Combining oilseed rape
Cultivations - Applying nitrogen fertiliser to oats in March.
Margins - Conservation headland alongside a new avenue through a field
Cereal crops - An untreated control plot illustrating a blackgrass infestation in the crop. Without the appropriate herbicide the yield of crop will have been significantly reduced.
Oilseeds - Pods of the oilseed rape plant
Grassland - Grass from the field is tipped and piled up to make a silage clamp
Grassland - Building a silage clamp
Cultivations - A cultivator at work incorporating the straw and stubble from a previous crop.
Cereal crops - A crop of spring barley illustrating ear shape and the awns.
Cultivations - Ploughing heavy ground with a reversible plough. Image Copyright FACE.
Cultivations - Drilling and rolling are being undertaken simultaneously
Cereal crops - The awns of spring barley in June.
Cereal crops - Maize or corn on the cob is not normally grown as a grain crop in the UK. This is the corn of Corn Flakes. Image Copyright FACE.
Cultivations - Combining a crop of spring barley.
Cultivations - Preparing for the next crop by discing the stubble.
Forage crops - Green cover forage crop. Image Copyright FACE.
Cultivations - Combining barley. The straw crop will be baled. Image Copyright FACE.
Protein crops - A handful of peas. Image Copyright FACE.
Grassland - Meadow grasses in flower.
Oilseeds - Combining a crop of winter oilseed rape.
Cereal crops - Marking out trial plots for establishment in a wheat crop.
Cultivations - Tramlines in crops allow farmers to spray exactly to the edge of the crop and not into the adjoining grassland
Cultivations - Rolling with Cambridge rollers.
Cultivations - Drilling a trial plot with a specialised drill.
Cultivations - Drill detail on a specialised trials drill.
Cultivations - Rolling a crop after sowing with Cambridge rollers. Rolling consolidates the soil ensuring a firm seedbeed that is less prone to drying out.
Storage - Laboratory equipment tests all grain at this store to confirm quality
Storage - Loading peas with a telescopic handler
Cereal crops - Trial plots of wheat have been laid out to evaluate new varieties and illustrate their characteristics to farmers who will visit the plots on open days during the summer months.
Cultivations - Harvesting a barley crop at the end of the day.
Root crops - Sugar beet crop showing the developing root
Oilseeds - Pest damage on the young oilseed rape plant
Cultivations - Drilling a cereal crop
Protein crops - Field beans
Cultivations - Applying an insecticide to a young crop of spring oilseed rape.
Cultivations - Ploughing a stubble in September
Set aside - Wild flowers in diverse set aside
Cultivations - A plough with a press being towed behind. The press consolidates the soil
Cereal crops - Spring barley in July
Cereal crops - A dense crop of winter wheat
Cereal crops - Spring barley in March
Cultivations - Combining oilseed rape, the view from the driver's seat.
Cereal crops - Senescence of the oldest leaves in cereals.
Protein crops - Combining a crop of dried peas. The snowstorm effect is from a heavy thistle burden in the crop.
Cereal crops - Cereal crops have the ability to tiller, a process of producing new shoots for the base. This allows the plant to grow into unused space
Root crops - Potatoes
Cereal crops - Evening light on a crop of wheat in July
Margins - A broad beetle bank has split two arable fields and joined with an existing hedge
Grassland - Hay making in progress, baling
Cultivations - Combining spring barley
Cultivations - A header used for harvesting forage maize
Cultivations - Drilling under way
Oilseeds - A dense crop of poppies in an oilseed rape crop
Protein crops - Lupins
Set aside - 20 metre wide strip of set aside buffering a crop and ancient woodland
Oilseeds - Crops of linseed (blue in the distance) and oilseed rape
Grassland - Mowing a crop of grass for hay baling.
Cultivations - fledglings
Energy crops - Short rotation coppice - a willow hybrid in a trial plot.
Storage - Grain pedestals aerate the crop
Cultivations - Harvesting a crop of flat oats. Combining crops like this is a slow business.
Cultivations - Inside a seed drill. The blocks control seed supply to the coulters allowing tramlines to be created
Cultivations - A large min till system with a tracked crawler and tillage drill unit
Grassland - Herb rich grassland
Grassland - Red clover is a useful grassland crop that is favoured by bumble bees
Cultivations - A large precision drill for use with sugar beet
Horticultural crops - Apple blossom and buds
Cultivations - Compound fertiliser containing nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potash (K)
Cultivations - Ammonium nitrate fertiliser in bags. Each bag contains important storage and usage information
Cereal crops - Blackgrass is a problem weed in cereal crops
Oilseeds - Sunflowers
Cultivations - Spraying a crop of durum wheat with a fungicide to control disease.
Cereal crops - A tramline in wheat just before harvest
Cereal crops - Wheat at harvest
Cultivations - Rolling a recently drill cereal crop.
Energy crops - Short rotation willow, part of an energy cropping program.
Cereal crops - A crop of oats shortly before harvest on a classic summer's day.
Grassland - Baling hay
Protein crops - The flower of a pea crop
Cereal crops - Wind in barley.
Cereal crops - Spring barley showing its ability to tiller. Tillering is the production of new shoots at ground level
Protein crops - Young pea plants, note the tendrils are beginning to interlink
Cereal crops - The characteristic dark green of wheat is illuminated by direct sunlight
Cultivations - Measuring fertiliser distribution for calibration purposes
Cereal crops - Winter wheat just before harvest. Note how the ears are bent over
Energy crops - Coppiced poplar. Detail illustrating the re-growth after the first cut.
Cereal crops - Stem extension of the wheat plants
Cultivations - Spraying a crop of wheat
Horticultural crops - A traditional orchard
Cereal crops - An even crop of winter wheat that is growing well.
Oilseeds - A young crop of oilseed rape that has been browsed by pigeons.
Cereal crops - Frost on a young wheat plant.
Cultivations - Detail of a direct drill
Cereal crops - Spring barley in July
Cultivations - Loading the hopper of a fertiliser spreader
Oilseeds - Linseed in flower with a lilac blue colour
Protein crops - A developing pea crop. Pea crops can stand as the tendrils interweave but are prone to collapse close to combining
Protein crops - Field beans in the pod
Cultivations - Rolling a cereal crop with flat rolls in spring
Cultivations - Spraying a spring barley crop with a herbicide to control problem weeds
Cultivations - A sprayer being washed off in the field after application of a pesticide. This ensures no transfer to other crops. Operators are obliged to wear protective clothing irrespective of how small the risk may be
Set aside - This over-wintering stubble is part of the farmer's set aside requirement
Storage - Weigh bridge at a commercial grain store.
Energy crops - Miscanthus is a grass that has a promising future as an energy crop.
Cultivations - A row-crop tractor wheel following a tramline
Grassland - Turning hay with a hay bob
Energy crops - Detail of miscanthus stem.
Grassland - Detail of mown grass in the corner of a field
Cultivations - Calibrating a fertiliser spreader using trays. This ensures accuracy of application and avoids waste
Forage crops - Forage maize.
Cultivations - Ammonium nitrate, or nitrogen fertiliser
Cultivations - Spreading fibrophos. Fibrophos is a dried chicken manure that is a useful fertiliser.
Oilseeds - A young crop of linseed.
Oilseeds - Spraying a young crop of oilseed rape
Cover crops - Chicory being grown in a conservation plot.
Grassland - A silage crop that has been cut
Oilseeds - The young linseed crop.
Oilseeds - Oilseed rape with a covering of snow in January.
Storage - Grain in store after harvest
Cultivations - Time to move on!
Grassland - A recently wrapped big bale. Note how tight the plastic covers the bale
Cultivations - Detail of drill. Seeds are delivered down tubes known as coulters
Cultivations - Combining wheat
Oilseeds - Seeds of oilseed rape. These seeds are about to be sown and have been treated with a pesticide (dyed blue) to prevent disease and insect attack
Oilseeds - Oilseed rape a month after flowering
Cereal crops - Flooded ground
Cereal crops - Snow covered crops
Cultivations - Treating a crop of peas to control damaging insects
Cereal crops - Birds eye view of a crop of wheat
Cereal crops - An ear of spring barley
Cultivations - A reversible plough allows the operator to return down the furrow that he has just ploughed
Cereal crops - Spring barley
Cereal crops - Snow covered wheat is protected from winter winds
Cultivations - Fertilising a young crop of wheat to encourage growth
Cultivations - Summer combining.
Protein crops - Combining dried peas
Cultivations - Harvesting cereals.
Cereal crops - Harvesting winter oats. Oat straw has a value as a foodstuff for cattle and is being retained for baling.
Oilseeds - Oilseed rape in a trailer
Cereal crops - Unloading the combine grain tank into the trailer.
Root crops - A very young potato crop.
Protein crops - Tendrils of the pea crop
Cultivations - Combine drivers view in spring barley
Oilseeds - Seeds of oilseed rape that have just been harvested
Cultivations - A vane that spreads the fertiliser. These are designed to spread the fertiliser evenly across the field.
Storage - Oilseed rape after harvest and now stored prior to sale
Cultivations - Ground showing effect of rolling
Cultivations - Herbicide control in a crop of peas
Oilseeds - Oilseed rape at the end of flowering
Storage - Wheat in a large modern grain store
Cultivations - Rolling a cereal crop
Cultivations - Telescopic handler for moving seed and fertiliser around on the farm
Storage - Fan on a pedestal that sucks or blows through the crop. When the store is full there will be little of the pedestal showing
Cereal crops - Young wheat plant
Set aside - White campion in set aside. Permanent set aside can be rich in biodiversity
Cereal crops - A crop of winter oats with a light dusting of snow.
Cultivations - Drilling a cereal crop
Cereal crops - Tramlines in a wheat crop
Cultivations - A seed drill being filled. Many farms use bulk 500kg bags
Cultivations - Internal detail of a seed drill hopper showing seed distribution chamber
Cultivations - Many combines have a "hill" feature allowing the header table to follow the contours of the ground whilst the combine body remains horizontal for more efficient separation of the grain and straw.
Cereal crops - Barley that has been drilled but which is lying on the surface. Depth of drilling is important - these grains will fail
Storage - wheat in a grain store
Cultivations - Combine drivers view as a combine unloads grain into a trailer
Cultivations - Drilling a spring sown crop of barley with a Horsch drill.
Oilseeds - Linseed straw that has been collected and is then burnt. The straw is extremely tough and this is the most practical form of removal.
Cultivations - Seagulls following soil cultivation.
Cereal crops - spring barley in June
Oilseeds - Winter oilseed rape in October.
Storage - Modern grain storage buildings
Cereal crops - A big baler in operation. These are high density rectangular bales
Storage - Grain sold from farms is sampled and retained
Grassland - Turning a crop of hay.
Cereal crops - Round bales of straw saved for bedding cattle.
Cereal crops - Weeds in a spring barley crop
Grassland - Big bales of silage used for winter feeding stock
Storage - Crops in store need aeration to maintain quality. These powerful fans blow air into the crop in store
Grassland - Mowing a crop of grass
Cover crops - Chicory in a mix being grown to provide a winter feed source for farmland birds.
Forage crops - Beef cows strip grazing a crop of kale.
Cereal crops - Foxes view through a wheat crop in May
Cultivations - The discs at the back are lowered into the ground when the drill is operating to mark the location of tramlines. Tramlines can then be used before the crop emerges
Cultivations - Ploughing, the view from the furrow
Cultivations - Drilling a wheat crop in early October
Energy crops - Miscanthus being grown for energy production
Cereal crops - A tramline in a crop
Cultivations - Seed drill turning around on the headland. The headland has already been drilled before the body of the crop is drilled
Cereal crops - Growing wheat crop with tramline leading from the headland tramline
Cultivations - Drilling a cereal crop
Cultivations - Fertilising a crop of spring barley with a nitrogen application
Cultivations - Rolling a recently drilled cereal crop with flat rolls
Cultivations - Flat rolling a crop, note the dual wheels on the tractor. These spread the load and reduce soil compaction
Cereal crops - Spring barley in may
Oilseeds - A gas banger is used to scare pigeons from an oilseed rape crop.
Storage - Modern grain store
Cereal crops - Broadleaved weeds in cereal crops
Cultivations - Unloading the combine at wheat harvest
Oilseeds - An emerging oilseed rape seedling.
Cultivations - Large stones can cause problems at harvest and have to be rolled into the ground
Cultivations - Spraying a wheat crop in February with a herbicide to control weeds. This spray was delayed for four months because of bad weather
Cultivations - Ploughed ground showing the furrow adjoining un-ploughed stubble
Margins - A conservation headland has been combined later than the body of the crop and the stubble has been left higher allowing the cornfield annuals to continue flowering
Cultivations - Compound fertiliser in a spreader
Set aside - Species rich set aside
Cultivations - Nitrogen fertiliser being spread
Storage - Silo grain stores.
Margins - A conservation margin growing alongside a wheat crop.
Cereal crops - Spring barley in March
Cereal crops - Emerging crop of spring barley in March
Cultivations - A tramline running through a crop. Operators follow these for accuracy of application
Protein crops - Tramlines in a crop of peas
Cereal crops - Pearl barley for use in stews.
Cereal crops - Emerging cereal crop with tramlines just evident
Cultivations - A large drill that has been loaded onto a trailer for transport by road
Cereal crops - Young wheat crop
Cultivations - Ploughed ground - the shiny appearance indicates a high clay content in the soil
Cultivations - Drilling mechanism of a seed drill.
Protein crops - Emerging peas
Cultivations - Harvesting winter wheat in August
Cultivations - Seed drill filled with seed wheat. The pink colour is a seed treatment that prevents diseases like Ergot
Storage - Without good storage crops become mouldy and worthless.
Cultivations - Unloading the combine at harvest time

Livestock

Beef - Young Highland Cattle.
Sheep - Romney Marsh Sheep.
Beef - Beef cattle.
Beef - Beef cattle being fed.
Beef - Beef cattle.
Feeding systems
Feeding systems
Feeding systems
Feeding systems
Feeding systems
Feeding systems
Sheep - Romney Marsh Sheep after being sheared.
Feeding systems
Sheep - Sheep grazing.
Sheep - Romney Marsh Sheep.
Sheep - Romney Marsh Sheep waiting in a pen before shearing begins.
Sheep - Romney Marsh Sheep waiting in a pen before being sheared.
Sheep - Romney Marsh Sheep.
Sheep - Romney Marsh Sheep.
Feeding systems
Feeding systems
Dairy - Cluster detail
Beef - A highland cow with calf.
Health - A pour on drench of ivermectin that is used to control worms and other parasites of beef cattle and non-lactating dairy cattle.
Sheep - Sheep grazing, winter light.
Dairy - TB testing, the tools of the trade. In the foreground the callipers used to measure the extent of swelling of the skin and determine the likelihood that the animal has been exposed to TB.
Dairy - TB testing. The inoculum is injected into the skin of the animal. This produces a reaction in the animal and the skin swells around the injection point. Depending upon the extent of the reaction, the animals likelihood to exposure to TB can be determined.
Dairy - TB testing. Preparing the test. Inoculum is drawn into the syringe and a tiny dose will be administered on to the skin of the animal.
Poultry - A modern intensive egg laying poultry unit. Units like this are very efficient on energy use and have a much lower carbon footprint than less intensive systems.
Pigs - Young piglets having a nap
Feeding systems - Strip grazing of grass, an electric fence is moved daily providing fresh grass to the cows
Horses - Horse livery and other forms of equine diversification have become more common on farms in recent years.
Sheep - Orphan lambs at the milk bar
Poultry - A modern free-range egg production unit.
Beef - A young beef calf on a mixed arable and livestock farm.
Sheep - Feeding time
Poultry - Hens on a free-range unit.
Beef - Beef animal at grass
Dairy - Walking the cows back to the field after milking
Feeding systems - Chopped forage maize in a silage clamp before sheeting down
Pigs - An outdoor pig herd - sows with piglet.
Sheep - Hill grazing.
Pigs - A contented sow on an outdoor pig unit.
Health - A sunshade provides a safe snoozing area for outdoor pigs. Pigs are prone to sunburn and adequate protection is essential
Housing - A hutch provides outdoor housing for the sow and her piglets.
Beef - Beef animals being carefully judged by bidders at this auction. An animal will come into the ring, walk round a couple of times before exiting by another route. During this time the bidding will be concluded and a sale made.
Sheep - Small lots of sheep penned at a market waiting sale. Animals will arrive at market in the morning and as soon as the auction has concluded will be taken away to their new home
Pigs - Piglets comfortably housed at a market.
Pigs - Piglets enjoying the outdoor life.
Health - Ultrascan view of a foetal calf in a cow
Poultry - Bantams and chickens in a traditional farmyard setting.
Pigs - Hampshire Black pigs
Sheep - Shearing sheep for the wool
Sheep - A small flock of Soay sheep. These primitive sheep are useful for conservation grazing as they browse shrub species.
Poultry - Free range broiler chickens.
Housing - The housing facilities on a game bird breeding farm with very high welfare standards.
Dairy - The cluster is on the udder. When the cow has finished milking the cluster will automatically release and be pulled out of the way
Dairy - Dairy cows at milking time in the parlour
Horses - A Shetland pony at grass in winter
Dairy - Dairy cows grazing fresh grass
Pigs - An inquisitive sow
Pigs - A farrowing crate prevents the mother pig from lying on her young in the first few days
Sheep - Woolsacks in a traditional barn
Dairy - Locomotion scoring as part of a vet led project to reduce lameness in dairy cows.
Sheep - A pure bred Soay sheep.
Sheep - Ewes and a ram with a raddle.
Pigs - Young piglets are sociable and huddle for warmth and comfort
Poultry - Grading and packing eggs at a large poultry unit.
Beef - Calf suckling from the cow in a suckler herd beef system
Pigs - Small lots of pigs, often rare breeds, can be found in livestock markets around the country.
Beef - Young calves penned at a market. In the beef industry there are many levels of specialisation and here calves from a dairy farm are being sold to be reared elsewhere.
Pigs - Very young piglets
Other animals - The hatchery on a game bird breeding farm.
Beef - A young beef animal from a suckler herd.
Beef - A young beef calf.
Sheep - Lambs in spring sunshine
Beef - A young suckler calf about three months old.
Feeding systems - Detail of well preserved silage
Beef - Cows and calves, a very social gathering.
Dairy - Dairy cows at grass
Health - Drenching sheep with a oral wormer.
Horses - Horses in a paddock grazing
Pigs - Young piglets
Sheep - Driving sheep across a country lane
Sheep - Ewes and lambs shortly after arrival in a new field
Sheep - Penned sheep awaiting sorting.
Sheep - Sheep shearing on board a special trailer
Feeding systems - Creep feeders allow the lambs to obtain some concentrate but prevent the ewes from obtaining it
Feeding systems - A maize and carrot mix for feeding to beef animals
Beef - Beef cow grazing coastal grassland.
Sheep - Bottle feeding an orphan lamb
Beef - Calf suckling from the cow's udders
Sheep - Recently born lamb with her mother and a potential foster mother!
Pigs - Rooting around in the mud is what pigs like best
Sheep - Upland grazing on improved pasture
Sheep - Newly born lambs being tended by the ewe
Beef - A young Angus cross Limousin calf
Sheep - Sheep, sheep dogs and parkland - a traditional country scene.
Sheep - Sheep in a race. The unit at the end of the race sprays the sheep to protect them from fly strike.
Sheep - A recently born lamb.
Feeding systems - Brewers grains (malted barley after use in beer production) is a good quality by-product in animal feed rations
Housing - Housing breeding gamebirds. Chicks are sold to farmers and landowners who run shoots.
Health - A mother cow watches anxiously as her calf is restrained for a necessary treatment.
Beef - Mature beef cattle ready for market. Note the spacious housing and deeply bedded straw.
Beef - Cows and calves. The cows will maintain a generally protective role over the calf group.
Feeding systems - Maize silage used for feeding beef and dairy animals
Feeding systems - A large water trough straddles a fence line. Lots of fresh water is essential for livestock
Dairy - Milking time, dairy cows line up in the collecting yard voluntarily
Dairy - Cows returning to the fields after milking, proper access tracks prevent poaching and sward damage.
Beef - Cows and calves of a traditional suckler herd.
Dairy - Cows grazing fresh grass
Poultry - Packing eggs on a large scale poultry unit.
Waste systems - This kennel housing has straw bedding inside for the piglets to lie on, whereas outside there is a slatted floor where pig muck drops through
Pigs - Young pigs
Health - Ultrasound testing a sow to confirm pregnancy
Dairy - Calf housing in a traditional farm building. Young calves need plenty of fresh straw in their pens and good ventilation, here a vet is on a routine visit.
Beef - A young calf born of a spring calving suckler herd.
Feeding systems - Good quality grass silage being fed to winter housed livestock
Housing - Pig housing - here a kennel is used for recently weaned pigs. This helps keep them warm
Dairy - Dairy cow grazing grass
Health - All farm animals need plenty of fresh water and adequate drinking points
Feeding systems - Silage is being cut from the clamp
Feeding systems - Home rolled barley is a traditional feed for livestock
Dairy - Parlour hygiene is important and if a cow has had to be treated with antibiotics her milk will be discarded and the cluster thoroughly cleaned
Housing - Chopped straw is being used for bedding piglets. Chopped straw provides a soft bed
Dairy - Dairy young stock
Beef - Winter housed beef cattle
Pigs - Weaner pigs in kennel housing
Dairy - Dairy young stock
Beef - Charolais cattle at grass
Housing - Most of the straw is produced in the east of the country and moved westwards to the main livestock areas
Pigs - Suckling time, each sow may have 14 teats
Dairy - A dairy cow at grass
Beef - Beef cattle in downland setting
Feeding systems - Silage clamp of forage maize being built
Pigs - Sow with piglets
Housing - Disinfectant powder for sterilising housing
Dairy - Dung beetles on a cow pat
Waste systems - A slurry tank designed to safely store the slurry of a pig herd
Beef - Young beef cattle
Feeding systems - Rolled barley is fed to beef cattle
Dairy - Concentrate rations being fed to cows are computer controlled
Feeding systems - A traditional beef system with cattle being fed rolled barley and straw
Feeding systems - Augers in a feeder wagon that mix bulk and concentrate feeds for feeding to stock
Dairy - Washing an udder keeps the milk pure and free from muck
Dairy - A cluster is being placed on the teats of the cow at the start of milking time
Sheep - Ewe with lambs.
Dairy - The udders of a dairy cow in the parlour at milking time
Dairy - A cow being milked in a parlour
Beef - Winter housed beef cattle
Dairy - The parlour is sunk into the ground to provide an easier working environment for the cow man
Sheep - A flock of sheep.
Beef - An inquisitive suckler cow.
Sheep - Ewes and lambs at grass.
Sheep - Store lambs making the most of a bale of straw!
Sheep - Lamb suckling ewe
Sheep - Ewes with lambs
Beef - Cows and calves on grassland beef system.
Beef - A suckler herd in a downland setting.
Beef - Grazing beef cows.
Dairy - Dairy cows at grass.
Beef - Just looking!
Sheep - Spring born lambs are fattening on grass and will shortly be ready for the market.
Beef - Ruminating cows and calves.
Sheep - Lambing time, an infra red lamp keeps lambs warm
Beef - Beef cattle; note the large water trough.
Beef - A young calf from a spring calving suckler herd.
Sheep - Ewe with lambs.
Sheep - Iodine treatment to the navel prevents infection
Sheep - Sheep in a pen.
Sheep - Driving sheep with a sheep dog
Poultry - Collected eggs ready for distribution.
Beef - Beef cow grazing on rough pasture
Dairy - Dairy cows are inquisitive and friendly animals.
Sheep - Ewe with black and white lambs.
Sheep - Sheep grazing during spring months
Beef - Charolais bull runs with the cows of the suckler herd.
Waste systems - Well rotted manure being loaded out for spreading onto stubbles after harvest
Dairy - Chewing the cud
Waste systems - A large muck spreader loaded for spreading
Dairy - Young calves in winter housing
Dairy - Young dairy calves in winter housing
Sheep - Ewe nuts may supplement grass in pregnancy
Dairy - Teats are washed and dried before the cluster is placed on them to start milking
Beef - A Charolais bullock at grass.
Horses - Horses are a traditional part of the farming scene. Image Copyright FACE.
Sheep - Easter born lambs with ewes shortly before weaning.
Dairy - When cows are ready to let down their milk they do so freely. Some animals do this before the cluster has been applied
Waste systems - Automatic slurry scrapers remove the slurry from winter housing
Feeding systems - A feeder wagon delivers fresh silage to the dairy herd in the winter
Beef - Beef cattle at summer grazing
Pigs - Young pigs
Dairy - Dairy farmers know all their cows well.
Sheep - The freshly born lamb is quick to search out a suckle from the ewe
Sheep - Restlessness characterises the start of lambing
Sheep - Feet first then the head for a normal delivery
Sheep - As the lamb emerges the shepherd will remove the mucous from around the nasal passages
Sheep - Lambs in normal delivery are born feet first
Sheep - The lamb is born and lambing is finished
Sheep - The ewe licks the lamb clean
Beef - Grazing beef cows and calves.
Dairy - Dairy heifers with a bull
Feeding systems - Concentrated feed made from cereals and other crops
Dairy - Cows are collecting in anticipation of milking
Horses - Young foal. Image Copyright FACE.
Beef - Grazing beef cattle. Image Copyright FACE.
Beef - Young beef calf in a meadow. Image Copyright FACE.
Waste systems - Dung heap. Image Copyright FACE.
Beef - Beef cattle fattening on sweetcorn waste, that which could not be sold for human consumption.
Dairy - For most of the year dairy cows live outside on grass
Dairy - Computers control many aspects of farming life. This computer records the amount of milk a cow gives and signals changes
Housing - Winter housing of dairy cattle. Sheds are always bright and airy to maintain healthy conditions
Beef - Beef cattle grazing in the evening light.
Pigs - Growing pigs in a day yard
Beef - Beef cattle.
Waste systems - Injecting sewage sludge into the ground
Beef - Beef cattle grazing an important conservation meadow
Pigs - Young piglets a few hours after birth
Beef - Aberdeen Angus cattle at a ring feeder in December. Notice the poached ground - a hazard from having cattle outdoors through the winter months.
Waste systems - Spreading well rotted manure on a field
Pigs - Outdoor pig housing
Housing - Round bales and square bales stacked for winter housing
Sheep - Lambs growing well on grass.
Housing - Outdoor pig housing
Beef - Charolais cow and calf
Feeding systems - This sow has just been weaned and is being fed on the floor. Pigs like rooting around for their food like this but it can be wasteful
Other animals - A goat.
Beef - A prize bull at the Royal Show.
Dairy - A competitor?
Beef - Young beef animal at grass
Feeding systems - Piglet feed is specially formulated for palatability and quality to give young pigs a good start
Horses - A donkey.
Pigs - Foot and mouth bio-security sign
Other animals - Baby goats.
Dairy - In the dairy parlour cows are often fed a concentrate ration. This is delivered into a bowl in front of the cow
Waste systems - Well rotted pig muck that has been spread on a stubble field
Dairy - Washed and clean, the parlour after milking
Beef - Beef cattle grazing downland
Beef - A Hereford cross cow in a beef system.
Sheep - Upland grazing is important for the maintenance of the ecosystem
Health - This headphone and specialist microphone allow the farmer to test for pregnancy
Sheep - Ewes grazing.
Pigs - Fun time outdoors
Housing - Disinfectant powder used for preventing disease build up in livestock housing
Feeding systems - A silo used for storing concentrate feeds
Sheep - Weighing sheep to assess whether they are ready for market
Pigs - Grower pigs in their day yard
Sheep - Sheep at the Royal Show.
Sheep - A sheep of mixed, primitive parenthood.
Other animals - A game bird breeding farm. Eggs are collected from hens, incubated and when hatched the chicks are sold.
Sheep - In the early stages of lambing the ewe will sometimes paw the ground searching for the lamb
Dairy - The empty parlour is always left clean to prevent disease or contamination
Housing - Small handlers are required to get into livestock yards
Housing - A traditional Suffolk pig house. The bedding area is behind the wall
Beef - Grazing cows and calves by evening light.
Feeding systems - These stalls are only used at feeding time and ensure that each animal gets the correct amount without bullying
Pigs - The farrowing crate prevents injury to the piglets in the first few days of life by stopping the sow from crushing her offspring
Beef - Inquisitive young calves.
Feeding systems - Silage being loaded into a mixer wagon
Waste systems - Pig muck produces effluent which drains into a ditch and is trapped in a special lagoon
Pigs - Young piglets out and about
Sheep - Soon after the first lamb arrives, the second is born
Sheep - Twins arrive
Waste systems - Slurry lagoon alongside pig muck. The lagoon is fenced
Sheep - Lambing time
Feeding systems - Many livestock feeds are pelletised to avoid waste and reduce dust in livestock buildings
Feeding systems - Concentrates fed to the dairy cow at milking time
Sheep - An early drink for the lamb is important. The first milk of the ewe contains colostrum which provides vital antibodies for the lamb
Health - The breeding calendar shows where every cow will calve
Sheep - Both lambs are now being cleaned
Health - Antibiotics are stored in a locked fridge on this pig farm. Antibiotics are used under veterinary supervision and not routinely
Beef - Grazing cattle in early summer.
Health - A herd health visit by the vet checking pregnancy diagnosis
Waste systems - The inside of a slurry tank. The slurry will be spread on stubble as a fertiliser.
Sheep - A lamb out at grass
Housing - Outdoor pig housing in huts.
Feeding systems - These cows are fed from a mixer wagon. In some herds the cows will eat the silage straight from the clamp
Beef - Cow and calf
Sheep - 15 minutes old - a newly born lamb.
Pigs - A snout in the trough
Dairy - Silage is always available ad lib to cows in the winter months
Feeding systems - Silage is cut from the clamp by a cutter which leaves the face clean and minimises waste
Feeding systems - Maize gluten is a waste product that provides good energy and protein to cattle
Dairy - If a cow has to be treated with antibiotics the milk has to be thrown away for a number of days after treatment
Dairy - The cluster remains on the teats because of a vacuum which pulsates and encourages the cow to let down her milk
Beef - Highland cattle grazing rough grassland.
Feeding systems - This calf feed is specially formulated for young animals
Beef - A young crossbred calf in a suckler system.
Feeding systems - Individual feeders for this pig herd prevent bullying
Housing - Dry sows in the UK must be housed in yards with straw bedding. Elsewhere in the world dry sows can be tethered
Housing - Pig huts are most successful on free draining soils
Beef - Aberdeen Angus cattle at a ring feeder in winter.
Beef - Beef cattle grazing.
Pigs - There is much excitement at feeding time
Dairy - Cattle passports follow all beef and dairy animals if they are sold
Dairy - Computers play an important role in keeping herd record up to date
Dairy - The milking parlour is a busy place and hoses are often suspended from the ceiling to enhance access
Pigs - Growing pigs on a straw yard.
Beef - A suckler calf at grass.
Health - This blower sprays a mist of fly killer around pig buildings to prevent flies becoming a nuisance
Beef - Summer time chewing the cud
Beef - Grazing beef cows.
Pigs - Pigs are either mated to a boar or artificial insemination
Beef - Simmental beef cattle
Health - Young piglets are given an injection of iron as a supplement at birth to prevent anaemia
Feeding systems - A silage clamp that is nearly empty. Note the strong concrete retaining walls
Pigs - Pigs on a slatted indoor system are inquisitive and friendly
Health - Young piglets have their teeth clipped to prevent their biting and injuring other animals
Pigs - Sun shades are used for outdoor pigs to prevent them from getting sun burnt
Housing - Strong viricidal disinfectants such as this have been necessary for bio-security during foot and mouth outbreaks
Other animals - Fallow deer.
Housing - Pig huts house dry and farrowing sows
Pigs - A slaughtered pig. Photograph: courtesy and copyright MLC
Beef - Beef cattle are useful for grazing rough grassland
Poultry - Poultry housing on a free-range unit.
Pigs - Friendly pigs like their stockman
Feeding systems - Mixer wagon that mixes bulk and concentrate feeds to make a balance diet for housed stock
Sheep - Winter grazing by sheep
Housing - Many livestock housing systems require good quality straw for bedding.

Food and Products

Retail - Modern day farm shop.
Retail - Modern day farm shop selling local produce.
Pork products - A prime boneless leg of British pork. This makes a great roast and is good value as a meat
Vegetables - Potatoes
Timber - Processed timber, sawn trees and beams after milling.
Processed foods - Flan base derived from wheat flower.
Timber - Felled timber
Vegetables - Peas in a pod!
Retail - The humble sandwich.
Vegetables - Freshly lifted carrots
Beef products - Scotch beef braising steak.
Fruit - Pears
Processing - Grading potatoes
Pork products - Smoked back bacon.
Vegetables - Swedes.
Vegetables - Aubergene.
Pork products - Loin pork chops.
Vegetables - Marrow
Poultry products - Eggs
Dairy products - Butter
Pork products - Sausages
Lamb products - Lamb and pigs liver.
Vegetables - Corn on the cob - sweet corn.
Arable crops - Bread and butter. The flour of bread is derived from wheat.
Pork products - Pig carcasses. Photograph: courtesy and copyright MLC
Vegetables - Swedes
Vegetables - Spring greens
Vegetables - Potatoes
Timber - A harvester stripping smaller branches from the stems of felled thinnings.
Beef products - Fillet steaks.
Poultry products - Fresh whole chicken
Fruit - Cherry tomatoes.
Pork products - Streaky bacon
Vegetables - Onions
Beef products - Topside of beef.
Fruit - Cherries
Timber - Felled timber and forestry plantation
Pork products - Belly of pork, suitable for roasting.
Beef products - Diced steak.
Fruit - Plums
Vegetables - Red cabbage.
Vegetables - Asparagus
Fruit - Blueberries
Vegetables - Mushrooms
Fruit - Bottles of wine from a prize winning English vineyard
Arable crops - Sliced bread!
Fruit - Apples
Processing - The bulk tank keeps the milk fresh until it is collected by the milk tanker
Processing - Milk from the dairy cow is cooled through a heat exchanger down to 4 degrees C to keep it fresh.
Vegetables - Onions
Vegetables - A mature crop of greens ready for harvest.
Beef products - Fillet steaks being vacuum packed.
Beef products - Faggots
Pork products - Roast leg of pork
Arable crops - Vegetable oil produced from oilseed rape.
Processing - Fresh milk into the bulk tank
Beef products - Steak & kidney
Dairy products - Milk
Vegetables - Parsnips
Vegetables - Celery
Fruit - Walnuts
Vegetables - Savoy cabbage
Vegetables - Savoy cabbage.
Vegetables - Chicory
Vegetables - Broccoli
Pork products - Smoked bacon
Timber - Processed, this cordwood is ready for collection and use in a saw mill
Vegetables - Courgettes
Beef products - Rump steak
Timber - A harvester strips and cuts to length, felled trees.
Timber - Felled trees awaiting processing.
Timber - Felled softwood timber stacked for collection
Lamb products - Shoulder of lamb
Vegetables - Lettuce
Fruit - Redcurrants
Vegetables - Carrots
Vegetables - Radish
Beef products - Steak mince
Vegetables - Leeks
Vegetables - Fruit and veg supplemented by milk and fruit juice. Image Copyright FACE.
Fruit - Fresh fruit and veg are important in the diet. Image Copyright FACE.
Vegetables - Bunched carrots, detail view.
Processing - Distillery making single malt whisky
Retail - Seasonal fare set out for Christmas.
Fruit - Tomatoes
Retail - Butcher's counter in a farm shop.
Retail - An award winning farm shop selling quality local produce.
Retail - Countryside interpretation centre in a farm shop.
Processing - A meat processing plant. Chilled conditions and food grade stainless steel make for hygienic working.
Beef products - Beef carcasses hanging in a cold room.
Dairy products - Cheese and milk are widely used breakfast foods and here are accompanied by eggs and bacon. Image Copyright FACE.
Vegetables - Potatoes
Vegetables - Cauliflower
Timber - Timber stacked as cord wood about eight feet in length and ready for sale
Vegetables - Brussel sprouts
Pork products - A prime pork chop. Photograph: courtesy and copyright MLC
Fruit - Apples
Arable crops - A loaf of white bread.
Pork products - Freshly made sausages hung in a chiller