Opinion and blogs

EXCLUSIVE - Martin Lines: "What does it mean to be a farmer today?"

EXCLUSIVE - Martin Lines: "What does it mean to be a farmer today?"

Nature Friendly Farming Network's Martin Lines writes on how farmers can solve some of the most pressing issues society faces, from food security to climate breakdown, but they are being undermined by warm words and a lack of support from Government

Farm Life
Martin Lines
clock 04 December 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Dairy farmers will need to weather the storm

clock 04 December 2025 • 1 min read
Livestock

Dog handler focus - Hayley Hunewill: "Their intelligence, instinct and stamina make my operation possible."

clock 04 December 2025 • 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Jessica Tilley-Moore: "More young people need to learn about where their food comes from, and that starts with education"

clock 03 December 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - George Dunn on the Autumn Budget: "The Chancellor has run scared from meeting farmers and their representative bodies to debate her policies"

clock 02 December 2025 • 4 min read
Livestock

Letters: "Methane from farming is not inherently bad"

clock 02 December 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Caroline Voaden: "Dairy farmers do not need another passive body; they need an adjudicator with teeth"

clock 01 December 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Alan Carter: "I arrived in less than 10 minutes from leaving the milking parlour, so had the genuine farmer look, and possibly smell"

In your field

In your field: Alan Carter: "I arrived in less than 10 minutes from leaving the milking parlour, so had the genuine farmer look, and possibly smell"

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

clock 01 December 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes: "The target is to pack 140,000 strawberry plants a day, and this year I'm optimistic"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes: "The target is to pack 140,000 strawberry plants a day, and this year I'm optimistic"

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

clock 30 November 2025 • 3 min read
Farming Matters – Simon Jeffery & Lizzie Lloyd: "Soils are key to future of farming"

Arable

Farming Matters – Simon Jeffery & Lizzie Lloyd: "Soils are key to future of farming"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Simon Jeffery, co-founder of the Earth Rover Program and professor of soil ecology at Harper Adams University, alongside sustainability consultant Lizzie Lloyd

clock 29 November 2025 • 3 min read