The Lincolnshire countryside may seem an unlikely place for investors, however there is growing interest in the region’s farmland as a form of secure investment. “A year ago UK farmland values reached record highs with demand driven by farming and non-farming purchasers alike,” says Brown & Co land agent  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . “With current low interest rates, and despite the recent banking crisis, values have held firm.”

  Kerry Graham -  blogging from Alnwick 

Designed to make advice on rural issues more accessible, rural specialists George F. White are today launching one of the country's most innovative blogs  www.farmersblog.co.uk . This almost real life farm blog follows the lives of the fictitious Swale family on their two farms one a livestock and one arable. The blog demonstrates how the family tackle the challenges of planning, stewardship schemes and climate change and even what their children get up to at Young Farmers.