Opinion and blogs

Colin Smyth: "The failure to deliver has left Dumfries and Galloway, once again, Scotland's forgotten region"

Colin Smyth: "The failure to deliver has left Dumfries and Galloway, once again, Scotland's forgotten region"

Labour MSP Colin Smyth has written exclusively for Farmers Guardian on Scottish Government's decision not to proceed with Galloway and Ayrshire as the location for Scotland's third National Park

Politics
Chris Brayford
clock 16 June 2025 • 4 min read
Environment

Farming Matters: "You can try to expel nature with a pitchfork, but it will always return"

clock 16 June 2025 • 4 min read
In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "Huge respect to all those farming in remote areas and thank you for welcoming us soft mainlanders when we visit"

clock 15 June 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "I ran after the cattle through brambles and rhododendron bushes for hours"

clock 14 June 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

OPINION: Farm profitability – While the Government pats itself on the back, confidence plummets

clock 13 June 2025 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: Spending Review not as bad as feared, but where will the money be spent?

clock 12 June 2025 • 2 min read
Beef

Letters: "I don't get the problem – if we are happy to export beef, we have to also be happy to import it"

clock 12 June 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus – Maria Warne-Elston: "I have watched three generations of women before me become unsung heroes"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus – Maria Warne-Elston: "I have watched three generations of women before me become unsung heroes"

Cornwall young farmer Maria Warne-Elston discusses the influence of female role models at her family farm

clock 11 June 2025 • 3 min read
Letters: "It is time that farmers and graziers should take precedence [in the uplands]"

Farm Life

Letters: "It is time that farmers and graziers should take precedence [in the uplands]"

Fairfax Luxmoore, Plymouth, writes to draw readers' attention to the 'gross mismanagement' of Old Winchester Hill [South Downs National Park, Hampshire]

clock 10 June 2025 • 2 min read
Hugh Pocock: "These technologies promise a more efficient, sustainable and prosperous future in farming"

Dairy

Hugh Pocock: "These technologies promise a more efficient, sustainable and prosperous future in farming"

Hugh Pocock, director at Cultura Connect, provides an insight into his visit to the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in Dallas

clock 10 June 2025 • 5 min read