Prime Minister Andy Burnham's visit to the Southwest has shone a light on the issues facing many rural businesses, but some have criticised his ‘knee jerk’ reaction of a £65m funding announcement and have called for a more long-term strategy to help them grow

Agricultural colleges are seeing healthy demand for places but getting farmers on board to help them facilitate real-world experience and job prospects is a perennial challenge

With a curriculum-linked education programme rooted in real, hands-on farming experience, Eddie Rixon believes opening the gate to schools is good for children, communities and agriculture's future

In his first sit-down interview since taking office, Wales' First Minister tells Farmers Guardian why he wants to shed the sense that farmers have things ‘done to them’, and what comes next for the Sustainable Farming Scheme

Speaking at the Royal Welsh Show, Rhun ap Iorwerth said bTB was one of the main, ongoing challenges facing Welsh farm businesses

Farming families urged to be more like the England football team and come together for one shared aim

Are farmers receiving a fair share of the value created by regenerative farming?

A shift to local, targeted control of bovine TB, with farmers driving decisions rather than waiting on centralised direction or being hampered by political interference, lies at the heart of the new plan to make England bTB-free by 2038