Opinion and blogs

Young Farmer Focus - Jessica Rippon: "Food production needs to be recognised as a national asset to this country"

Young Farmer Focus - Jessica Rippon: "Food production needs to be recognised as a national asset to this country"

Jessica Rippon, 24, is a farm consultant at The Farm Consultancy Group and she is from Nottingham

Young Farmer Focus
Chris Brayford
Chris Brayford
clock 12 March 2024 • 2 min read
Blogs

Neil Lindsay - Leaving the lights on: How solar energy is fundamental to empowering resilience and sustainability within the farming community

clock 10 March 2024 • 3 min read
Young Farmers and Careers

Careers special: Women in Food and Farming conference encourages self-belief

clock 08 March 2024 • 1 min read
Farm Life

Farming Matters: Abi Reader - "All this would leave anyone wondering what actual farming does Wales want?"

clock 08 March 2024 • 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: "This level of distrust must be 'urgently' repaired if Red Tractor is to get farmers back on side"

clock 07 March 2024 • 2 min read
Young Farmers and Careers

Dan Smith: "The farm welcomes underprivileged children...They leave the farm as better people and consider themselves to have a brighter future"

clock 06 March 2024 • 3 min read
Blogs

Jenny Jefferies: "[We] converted to regenerative agriculture about seven years ago, and one of the key principles of this is the introduction of livestock into the arable system"

clock 05 March 2024 • 5 min read
Farming matters: John Thorley - "National Parks bring no benefits"

Farm Life

Farming matters: John Thorley - "National Parks bring no benefits"

News reported in Farmers Guardian highlighting NFU Scotland’s challenge over National Parks struck a chord, one which I hope will go on reverberating until the entire edifice of National Parks is challenged

clock 05 March 2024 • 3 min read
In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Farming has become even more marginal"

Farm Life

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Farming has become even more marginal"

James and Isobel are new entrants and formerly had a 45-hectare (111-acre) fiveyear Farm Business Tenancy at Wiston. That has come to an end and they are looking for a new tenancy. James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm

clock 04 March 2024 • 2 min read
In your field: Dan Jones - "I was once again blown away by the sheer scale of the farming operations"

Livestock

In your field: Dan Jones - "I was once again blown away by the sheer scale of the farming operations"

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

clock 04 March 2024 • 3 min read