Opinion and blogs

In your field: Kate Rowell - 'I was back home at last, just in time to jump on the tractor and help with harvest'

In your field: Kate Rowell - 'I was back home at last, just in time to jump on the tractor and help with harvest'

We eventually got our field of barley combined last week after a month of obsessing over every weather forecast and watching the undersown chicory, grass and clover grow ever taller until it almost looked like a green field again.

Farm Life
Farmers Guardian
clock 01 November 2023 • 3 min read
Blogs

Letters: Labour policy on TB 'mad and dangerous'

clock 01 November 2023 • 2 min read
Farm Life

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - 'Make time to enjoy life'

clock 31 October 2023 • 2 min read
Climate Change

Farming matters: Rosie Pearson - 'When will the planning system put food security first?'

clock 31 October 2023 • 2 min read
Dairy

Dairy Farmer - from the editor: "Everyone should feel represented"

clock 23 October 2023 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: Olivia Midgley - Politicking over bovine TB risks reversing hard-fought gains

clock 22 October 2023 • 2 min read
Dairy

Good Evans: "If the Sky man comes again I'll ask him to clear the gutters out"

clock 22 October 2023 • 4 min read
Dairy Talk - Becky Fenton: "Good luck to them both commencing their farming journey"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Becky Fenton: "Good luck to them both commencing their farming journey"

This year is passing in the blink of an eye and there never seems to be enough hours in the day

clock 20 October 2023 • 3 min read
Young Farmer Focus - George Elliott: "Since I was introduced to farming in my childhood, I have never doubted that a career in agriculture has been for me"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - George Elliott: "Since I was introduced to farming in my childhood, I have never doubted that a career in agriculture has been for me"

George Elliott, 23, is a farmer from Ashbourne in Derbyshire

clock 20 October 2023 • 3 min read
Chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss: "I know how interested the industry is in the potential to use vaccination to curb this terrible disease of avian influenza"

Blogs

Chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss: "I know how interested the industry is in the potential to use vaccination to curb this terrible disease of avian influenza"

Having attended the recent G7 chief vets forum in Japan, chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss discussed some of the most difficult animal health challenges facing the farming industry today – including avian influenza, African swine fever and antimicrobial resistance

clock 17 October 2023 • 3 min read