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Letters: "A poetical look back at the farming year"

Letters: "A poetical look back at the farming year"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: A poem from Joe Gorst looking back at 2025 in farming

Farm Life
Joe Gorst
clock 30 December 2025 • 2 min read
In your field

In your field: Dan Jones – "Farming can take up so much space in your mind you forget what else you're capable of"

clock 29 December 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: James and Isobel Wright – "Our farm has been clear of bovine TB for 23 years. Just after Christmas, we've got our annual bTB test"

clock 28 December 2025 • 2 min read
Farm Business

Farming Matters: Brian Richardson – "Let's hope there are good returns for farmers in 2026"

clock 27 December 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: Merry Christmas from us all at Farmers Guardian

clock 24 December 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Joss Naylor: 'Rural businesses need improved connectivity'

clock 24 December 2025 • 6 min read
Politics

OPINION: IHT reprieve reason for Christmas cheer

clock 23 December 2025 • 2 min read
Road to regen – Silas Hedley-Lawrence: "We have also been incredibly lucky to find a farming opportunity in the Cotswolds"

Sustainable Farming

Road to regen – Silas Hedley-Lawrence: "We have also been incredibly lucky to find a farming opportunity in the Cotswolds"

Silas Hedley-Lawrence is a farmer, coach and consultant with a decade of hands-on experience in regenerative agriculture. With a background rooted in both commercial and direct selling models, he champions lean, profitable farming systems that increase biodiversity and soil health. Silas is an Integrity Soils trained agroecological coach from the Yellowstone 2024 cohort

clock 23 December 2025 • 6 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Tom Bradshaw: "My message to him [Sir Keir Starmer] was simple: there is still time to take action to remove those most at risk from the eye of this storm"

Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Tom Bradshaw: "My message to him [Sir Keir Starmer] was simple: there is still time to take action to remove those most at risk from the eye of this storm"

NFU president Tom Bradshaw writes on the importance of Labour MPs who abstained on a vote to limit APR and BPR, and why the Prime Minister should do the right thing by protecting elderly and terminally ill farmers from cruel and inhumane Inheritance Tax changes

clock 22 December 2025 • 4 min read
In your field: Helen Stanier – "Even though everybody knows Christmas falls on December 25, it always seems to come at just the wrong time on our farm"

In your field

In your field: Helen Stanier – "Even though everybody knows Christmas falls on December 25, it always seems to come at just the wrong time on our farm"

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

clock 22 December 2025 • 3 min read