Opinion and blogs
In your field: Kate Rowell - "It's the highlight of my year to head up to the top of Hundleshope Heights to gather sheep on a beautiful summer's day"
Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland
20 July 2025
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3 min read
From the editor: SFS and bluetongue set to be hot topics at Royal Welsh Show
17 July 2025
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2 min read
Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham: "Some of us are trying to function and farm in the midst of a drought"
17 July 2025
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3 min read
In your field
Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, at Constantine, Cornwall, where they milk 130 cows and supply Saputo. Total cattle numbers stand at 420 head kept on 162 hectares (400 acres). Alan and his wife Sarah have two children, Ross and Dana and the family also run three self-catering holiday lets
13 July 2025
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3 min read
In your field
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
12 July 2025
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3 min read
Politics
Head of news and business Alex Black discusses farming's value after comments from the Welsh First Minister
11 July 2025
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1 min read