Opinion and blogs

In your field: Dan Hawes – "We've just started commercially picking our glasshouse strawberry crop, so do keep an eye out for British strawberries on the shelves very soon"

In your field: Dan Hawes – "We've just started commercially picking our glasshouse strawberry crop, so do keep an eye out for British strawberries on the shelves very soon"

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

In your field
Dan Hawes
clock 19 April 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Business

OPINION: Succession, security and trusts on the family farm

clock 18 April 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Life

Farming Matters: Kerriann McLackland – "Public countryside access fosters a lifelong passion and cultivates a sense of care through experience"

clock 18 April 2026 • 4 min read
Farm Business

EXCLUSIVE - John Milne: 'We want small abattoirs to be seen as critical national infrastructure'

clock 17 April 2026 • 3 min read
Politics

OPINION - Iran war: UK is not prepared for food shortages

clock 17 April 2026 • 2 min read
Shows & Sales

View from the Rostrum - Ted Ogden: "Strong demand for young cattle is driving record numbers through the ring"

clock 17 April 2026 • 3 min read
Blogs

OPINION: If food security is national security, then now is the time to get behind our farmers

clock 16 April 2026 • 3 min read
From the editor: Pragmatic approach to uplands policy is the right one

Politics

From the editor: Pragmatic approach to uplands policy is the right one

This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

clock 16 April 2026 • 2 min read
OPINION: New legislation on sheep worrying welcome but not the answer

Blogs

OPINION: New legislation on sheep worrying welcome but not the answer

Farmers Guardian's livestock editor, Angela Calvert, highlights the impact of sheep worrying on farmer's mental health

clock 15 April 2026 • 2 min read
OPINION: Designing the perfect farmyard - easier said than done

Blogs

OPINION: Designing the perfect farmyard - easier said than done

Head of arable Ash Ellwood lives on a farm in Cheshire, where she and her husband, Will, have recently begun rearing beef calves, diversified into equine livery, and purchased 12 pedigree breeding ewes

clock 15 April 2026 • 2 min read