farming

26 October 2026, Monday

06:26 Business Asher Valley dairy cooperative builds its own cheese plant Forty-one family farms have pooled €9.5m to turn part of their milk into hard cheese and butter, aiming to earn more per litre than selling it to large processors. Aisha Rahman

25 October 2026, Sunday

22:43 Business Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field. Lucas Moreau

19:29 Business Combines side by side in a wheat field: the harvest from above Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer. Rafael Ortega

24 October 2026, Saturday

13:14 10 photosBusiness Tea gardens: green terraces on the hillsides From Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations. Isabel Duarte

11:55 Lifestyle Pick-your-own pumpkin farm draws families to the Asher Valley in its busiest October yet A farm that once grew only cereals now plants 14 varieties of pumpkin and squash, and turns its fields over to visitors for four weeks every autumn. Daniel Osei

20 October 2026, Tuesday

17:49 Business Asher Valley grain growers lock in prices with millers through three-year contracts A shared online platform run by the growers' cooperative has matched more than 80 farms with regional mills on fixed-price deals, offering both sides shelter from swings in the commodity market. Elena Sokolova

16:33 News Asher Valley wheat harvest beats five-year average despite a wet spring Farmers in the Asher Valley have brought in a wheat crop well above recent averages, figures from the Growers' Cooperative show, after a dry, warm finish to the summer rescued fields that were waterlogged at sowing. Hannah Okoye