Opinion and blogs

Farming Matters - Tim Rooke: "If the UK wants a strong potato sector, we need the tools to do the job properly"

Farming Matters - Tim Rooke: "If the UK wants a strong potato sector, we need the tools to do the job properly"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Tim Rooke, North Yorkshire potato farmer and vice-chair of the NFU Horticulture and Potatoes Board

Arable
Tim Rooke
clock 13 December 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Adrian Ramsay: 'It is time to end the cruelty of cages and crates in UK farming"

clock 12 December 2025 • 5 min read
Dairy

NZ Vet's View - Rory Dean: "The relationship between vet and farmer is put to the test when you don't have necessary medicines"

clock 12 December 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - George Freeman: "The real risk posed by the Government's shotgun licensing proposal is not to public safety, but to our rural way of life"

clock 11 December 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Moving in the right direction on livestock worrying legislation

clock 11 December 2025 • 2 min read
Farm Life

EXCLUSIVE - Stuart Anderson: "In many rural towns and villages, churches are the only buildings in which residents can come together"

clock 09 December 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Julia Buckley: 'How to measure – and tackle – poverty, in the countryside?'

clock 09 December 2025 • 2 min read
Letters: "Red Tractor will continue to promote and defend the high standards of British agriculture"

Farm Business

Letters: "Red Tractor will continue to promote and defend the high standards of British agriculture"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Richard Cattell, director of marketing and commercial at Red Tractor, highlights the importance of Red Tractor’s food assurance standards at a time when illegal, unregulated meat imports are increasing

clock 09 December 2025 • 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Ann Davies: "As we gather around the table this Christmas, let's remember the story behind the plate"

Farm Business

EXCLUSIVE - Ann Davies: "As we gather around the table this Christmas, let's remember the story behind the plate"

Plaid Cymru MP Ann Daives writes on why buying from family farms, butchers and farm shops matters more than ever this Christmas

clock 08 December 2025 • 3 min read
In your field - Kate Rowell: "It's taken seven years to build numbers back to where we were before the Beast from the East"

In your field

In your field - Kate Rowell: "It's taken seven years to build numbers back to where we were before the Beast from the East"

Kate Rowell 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

clock 08 December 2025 • 3 min read