Opinion and blogs

OPINION: New entrant or fifth generation – why is the farming education conversation so divisive?

OPINION: New entrant or fifth generation – why is the farming education conversation so divisive?

Why should people be excluded from the farming industry? This week digital editor Emily Ashworth talks about the need for constructive conversation about education and careers

Education
Emily Ashworth
clock 13 April 2026 • 2 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - George Dunn on IHT: 'Gov could have used a consultation to pause for thought about its moral responsibility towards the elderly and terminally ill'

clock 13 April 2026 • 4 min read
Blogs

In your field: James Wright - "We lose 24 years of official TB-free status"

clock 13 April 2026 • 2 min read
Blogs

In your field: Dan Jones - "Like any sensible farmer, I've been doing some cattle window shopping"

clock 12 April 2026 • 3 min read
Blogs

Farming Matters: Sarah Dyke MP - 'Farmers make hard choices to protect communities'

clock 11 April 2026 • 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: A glimmer of hope, but uncertainty remains the watchword

clock 09 April 2026 • 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Molly Strawbridge: "RAU was more than a uni; it was a community"

clock 08 April 2026 • 3 min read
Welsh Election 2026 - Llyr Gruffydd: "It is time for a rural reset. Plaid Cymru will back our family farms"

Politics

Welsh Election 2026 - Llyr Gruffydd: "It is time for a rural reset. Plaid Cymru will back our family farms"

Llyr Gruffydd writes on how Plaid Cymru will deliver a new era of putting farming and rural policy at the heart of Welsh Government if it wins the Senedd Election

clock 08 April 2026 • 3 min read
Letters: "Our own human food supply is continuing to decline at an alarming rate"

Politics

Letters: "Our own human food supply is continuing to decline at an alarming rate"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Stephen Ramsden questions whether a recent BBC programme fairly represented the debate around lab-grown meat

clock 07 April 2026 • 1 min read
Scottish Election 2026 - Jim Fairlie: "We cannot rely on Westminster to get it right for rural Scotland"

Politics

Scottish Election 2026 - Jim Fairlie: "We cannot rely on Westminster to get it right for rural Scotland"

Ahead of May's election, Jim Fairlie writes on how the SNP has put the interests of farmers and crofters first in its near 20-year term in office, and how the party will back the farming sector in the future if it wins a fifth election

clock 06 April 2026 • 4 min read