Opinion and blogs

Letters: "New QMS assurance standards are the most practical and farmer-focused in decades"

Letters: "New QMS assurance standards are the most practical and farmer-focused in decades"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Nial Jeffrey, chair of the Quality Meat Scotland Standards Setting Body and cattle and sheep farmer, discusses the latest updates to the QMS Cattle and Sheep Assurance Standards

Livestock
Farmers Guardian
clock 25 November 2025 • 2 min read
In your field

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "This week, we found ourselves in Buckinghamshire alongside a hundred other farmers"

clock 24 November 2025 • 2 min read
In your field

In your field: Dan Jones - "As one Argentinian farmer told me: 'Farm like we are going to be here forever'"

clock 23 November 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: Farmers' fight for fairness must continue as Budget looms

clock 22 November 2025 • 2 min read
Livestock

Farming Matters - Adrian Fellows: "If reducing antibiotic use is our goal, shouldn't we make it easier for farmers to test solutions?

clock 22 November 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Lizzie Hacking: "I met farmers battling not just the elements, but the brutal realities of war"

clock 21 November 2025 • 3 min read
Livestock

What are the benefits of regen livestock management to farmers?

clock 19 November 2025 • 5 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Lara Dicesare: "When you are doing what you love, you thrive"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Lara Dicesare: "When you are doing what you love, you thrive"

Congleton farmer Lara Dicesare is this year's Dairy Queen and chair of Macclesfield YFC, showing that when you really love something, you will excel in it

clock 19 November 2025 • 4 min read
Letters: "Farming will never be prosperous without radical tax reform"

Farm Business

Letters: "Farming will never be prosperous without radical tax reform"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Duncan Pickard, Balmullo, discusses the difficulties of turning a profit in agriculture

clock 18 November 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: James Robinson - "Come to Strickley, do a bit of team-building – by rescuing foolish farmers"

In your field

In your field: James Robinson - "Come to Strickley, do a bit of team-building – by rescuing foolish farmers"

James farms Dairy Shorthorns east of Kendal, Cumbria, with his parents Kathleen and Henry, wife Michelle and sons Robert and Chris. The fifth generation to farm at Strickley, he is also vice-chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network

clock 17 November 2025 • 3 min read