Opinion and blogs

Farming matters: Natalie Bennett - 'Could farmers be more exposed to drug resistant microbes?'

Farming matters: Natalie Bennett - 'Could farmers be more exposed to drug resistant microbes?'

Natalie Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle is an Australian-British politician and journalist who served as Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016.

Farm Life
Farmers Guardian
Farmers Guardian
clock 14 February 2023 • 3 min read
Farm Life

In your field: Dan Jones - 'A ewe in the school hen house was a new one'

clock 13 February 2023 • 3 min read
Farm Life

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - 'Westminster armed police frowned at the shotgun shells I'd forgotten about'

clock 12 February 2023 • 2 min read
Farm Life

Young farmer focus: Rhianna Deeble - 'What life gives you does not define you'

clock 11 February 2023 • 2 min read
Farm Life

In Your Field: James Robinson - 'It's a farmer thing to put off getting ourselves sorted. Animals and silage time always come before the visit to the doctors'

clock 06 February 2023 • 3 min read
Farm Life

McDonald's Progressive Young Farmer: Sophie Ascroft - 'I know planting trees on agricultural ground can be controversial - how can we produce food when the ground is covered in trees?'

clock 05 February 2023 • 6 min read
Farm Life

Farming Matters: Paul Temple - 'Will 2023 be the year that Red Tractor actually catches up with the real world?'

clock 05 February 2023 • 3 min read
From the editor: Lack of cash and deterrents allowing fly-tipping to soar

Farm Life

From the editor: Lack of cash and deterrents allowing fly-tipping to soar

Fly-tipping and littering remain a blight on the UK countryside.

clock 04 February 2023 • 2 min read
Dairy Talk: Matthew Winter - 'This winter is not one I am looking to repeat in a hurry'

Livestock

Dairy Talk: Matthew Winter - 'This winter is not one I am looking to repeat in a hurry'

You take for granted what you see every day. I think of this as I catch a glimpse of the Red Arrows practicing above me, which is so commonplace here during winter as to go almost unnoticed.

clock 01 February 2023 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk: Claire Eastham - 'Cows are now on our meadow hay and settling into their dry period'

Dairy

Dairy Talk: Claire Eastham - 'Cows are now on our meadow hay and settling into their dry period'

We are still shut down with TB. It is rumbling slightly, with one reactor in each of the past two tests. Obviously it is sod’s law that the best heifer had to go.

clock 30 January 2023 • 3 min read