16 February 2025
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Farming on the Great Orme presents its own challenges, one of which I enjoy is gathering. Although we are not a particularly high farm, at 200 meters, we often refer to the rocky cliffs and crags outside...
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Amy Wilkinson, who worked on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire, writes her final blog for Farmers Guardian as she embarks on a new challenge working in Ireland for McHale. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson
01 November 2025
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Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana
27 October 2025
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Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops
26 October 2025
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