Opinion and blogs

In your field: Kate Beavan - "The long, hard lambing season has finally finished"

In your field: Kate Beavan - "The long, hard lambing season has finally finished"

Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122 hectares (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on-site from their orchards. She is a mum of two, runs Kate’s Country School on-farm and is the woodland creation officer for Stump Up For Trees

In your field
Farmers Guardian
clock 26 April 2024 • 2 min read
Farm Business

From the editor: With food security at risk, surely now is the time for the Government to put its money where its mouth is?

clock 25 April 2024 • 2 min read
Politics

Farming matters: Norman Bagley - "It is time that we consign Red Tractor to an old shed"

clock 25 April 2024 • 3 min read
Dairy

Dairy Matters - Paul Tompkins: "I recognise that the strength of UK dairy farming lies in its diverse production types"

clock 25 April 2024 • 5 min read
Dairy

Dairy Farmer - From the Editor: "At times the rainfall was nothing short of biblical"

clock 23 April 2024 • 1 min read
Farm Business

Letters: "All farmers will certainly be welcoming the second review into Red Tractor and farm assurance"

clock 22 April 2024 • 2 min read
In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "I am listening out for the cuckoo every day"

clock 21 April 2024 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham: "I would expect food inflation to hit the headlines again this autumn"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham: "I would expect food inflation to hit the headlines again this autumn"

Well it's wet. I can only hope by the time you read this it's dry, or we're all in trouble

clock 21 April 2024 • 4 min read
Farming matters: George Parkinson - "A change in policy needed to support UK's food security"

Politics

Farming matters: George Parkinson - "A change in policy needed to support UK's food security"

At the time I pitched this article, Defra announced changes to the Sustainable Farming Incentive to ensure that food production remained the primary purpose of farming – I think that farmers already know this is the purpose

clock 20 April 2024 • 3 min read
Roger Evans: "No farmer would ever dare to pollute on the scale that sewage makes its way into rivers"

Dairy

Roger Evans: "No farmer would ever dare to pollute on the scale that sewage makes its way into rivers"

This month Roger Evans discusses after dinner speaking, water pollution and tells a tale of how a farmer got the better of the tax man

clock 19 April 2024 • 5 min read