Blogs

Glyn Lucas, dairy sales manager for Harrison & Hetherington, discusses the role of beef from the dairy herd fitting into the food chain

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

As I look back, 2024 was a year of lots of change for me, my business and farming in general in more ways than one

Farmers Guardian livestock editor Katie Jones discusses the importance of thorough border controls to ensure disease is not imported into the UK

In a blog for Farmers Guardian, shepherdess and top sheepdog triallist Emma Gray talks about the generational pull of farming

After attending the Oxford Real Farming Conference, dairy farmer and Farmers Guardian columnist James Robinson talks about how the event helps to bring the industry together and encourage unity

Founder of the Sustainable Food Trust Patrick Holden said Steve Reed missed an opportunity to show more support for the industry in his speech at the Oxford Farming Conference

As with all farmers, the weather is one of our biggest influences on nearly everything we do

Farmers Guardian's livestock editor Katie Jones discusses the prospects for milk prices in 2025

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution