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Lois Pearson

Articles by Lois Pearson

Great British Beef Week – Jilly Greed: "We are now seeing farmgate prices that encourage investment"

Beef

Great British Beef Week – Jilly Greed: "We are now seeing farmgate prices that encourage investment"

Ms Greed, cofounder of Great British Beef Week and Ladies in Beef, shares her thoughts on the current state of the UK beef industry in the GBBW campaign's 15th year

clock 25 April 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "Encouraging landscape-scale nature-friendly farming and nature recovery schemes is crucial"

Environment

Letters: "Encouraging landscape-scale nature-friendly farming and nature recovery schemes is crucial"

Richard Broadbent, an environmental lawyer at Freeths, writes that landowners require certainty, clarity and careful forward planning if we are to reverse the chronic biodiversity decline we have seen over the past 100 years

clock 23 April 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "Rural Scotland matters. It is time those in power acted like it"

Rural Development

Letters: "Rural Scotland matters. It is time those in power acted like it"

Cllr Alastair Redman, Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, writes about the continued decline of and 'serious investment' needed in rural services

clock 22 April 2025 • 1 min read
British Farming Award winner embraces paddock grazing for healthier, more productive sheep, alongside a flourishing ecosystem

British Farming Awards

British Farming Award winner embraces paddock grazing for healthier, more productive sheep, alongside a flourishing ecosystem

Oliver Harrison, BFA Sheep Farmer of the Year 2024, is setting a benchmark for progressive and sustainable upland sheep farming at Aimshaugh, in the Cumbrian hills

clock 18 April 2025 • 2 min read
Baroness Batters makes heartfelt appeal on BBC Radio 4 on behalf of Farm Africa charity

Farm Life

Baroness Batters makes heartfelt appeal on BBC Radio 4 on behalf of Farm Africa charity

As an ambassador of the charity Farm Africa, former NFU president Baroness Minette Batters highlighted the story of Kenyan smallholder Juliet Muthoni

clock 18 April 2025 • 6 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Zeichner - "Average Farm Business Incomes are forecast to rise in the first year of this Labour Government"

Politics

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Zeichner - "Average Farm Business Incomes are forecast to rise in the first year of this Labour Government"

In an exclusive for Farmers Guardian, Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner sets out his agenda for the recently announced Farm Profitability Review, led by Baroness Minette Batters

clock 18 April 2025 • 3 min read
British Farming Awards Arable Farmer of the Year proves working with nature can be productive and profitable

British Farming Awards

British Farming Awards Arable Farmer of the Year proves working with nature can be productive and profitable

Nicholas Watts’ respectful approach to farming alongside wildlife shows it is possible to balance profitable arable farming with thriving biodiversity

clock 17 April 2025 • 2 min read
Letters: "Good luck and good fortune will play a role as equally important as good tax planning"

Politics

Letters: "Good luck and good fortune will play a role as equally important as good tax planning"

Richard Barnett, of The Rural Partnership Group, Cheshire, responds to Andy Welford's Farming Matters column (FG, March 21) and shares his views on the Treasury's Inheritance Tax reforms

clock 17 April 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "How many dairy farms use precision livestock farming technologies and how do they support decision-making?

Dairy

Letters: "How many dairy farms use precision livestock farming technologies and how do they support decision-making?

Joanne Sharpe, a PhD student at Harper Adams University, is investigating the use of digital tools and sensors, including wearable devices that monitor dairy cows 24/7

clock 16 April 2025 • 1 min read
Strong early 2025 food exports threatened by tariffs

Politics

Strong early 2025 food exports threatened by tariffs

UK food exports in the first two months of the year were 10.7% higher than the same period last year, according to HMRC figures

clock 15 April 2025 • 2 min read
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