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Royal Welsh Show preview: Dog Handler Focus - Chris Toner and Niro Mace

Royal Welsh Show preview: Dog Handler Focus - Chris Toner and Niro Mace

Ahead of this year's Royal Welsh Show, we find out more about experienced handler Chris Toner, 37, who claimed top spot at last year’s show trial.

Livestock
Ellie Layton
clock 05 July 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Dan Jones - "What's the takeaway? Sheep farming has a future – if we let it evolve"

clock 05 July 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

OPINION: A year is a long time in politics

clock 04 July 2025 • 2 min read
Farm Business

From the editor: Farming continues no matter what the weather throws at us

clock 03 July 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "We cannot achieve our shared and ambitious environmental and nature goals without farmers"

clock 03 July 2025 • 3 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Jack Emery: "People need to know where their food comes from"

clock 02 July 2025 • 2 min read
Livestock

Letters: "This shows there is now more adaptability from the Government in trying to meet the evolving needs of the farming industry"

clock 01 July 2025 • 2 min read
Regen Special Farming Matters: Angus Gowthorpe - "I had to make changes for the longer term improvement and for the next generation"

Farm focus

Regen Special Farming Matters: Angus Gowthorpe - "I had to make changes for the longer term improvement and for the next generation"

Based in the Vale of York, Angus Gowthorpe is a member of the regenerative farming group the Green Farm Collective, he grows arable crops and has a suckler herd.

clock 30 June 2025 • 4 min read
In your field: Helen Stanier - "The Great Yorkshire Show is our window to the public, to show our livestock and the work we do as farmers"

In your field

In your field: Helen Stanier - "The Great Yorkshire Show is our window to the public, to show our livestock and the work we do as farmers"

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

clock 29 June 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: James Robinson - "Friday the 13th. I mean, what idiot farmer books their TB test for Friday the 13th?"

In your field

In your field: James Robinson - "Friday the 13th. I mean, what idiot farmer books their TB test for Friday the 13th?"

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 28 June 2025 • 4 min read