Blogs

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

After a dry summer and increasing challenges to manage water, professor of agricultural water management at Cranfield University, Prof Jerry Knox, explores technologies and tools to aid understanding and decision-making

Kate Rowell is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

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

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

At long last, capital grant, Farming Equipment and Technology Fund and Farming Transformation Fund applications are materialising into agreement offers

This month, Roger Evans discusses the important role that farmers play in their communities, and how having fewer farmers will impact society

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

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

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno. His Farm Business Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill