Opinion and blogs

In your field: Helen Stanier – "I would like to see farmers given greater opportunity to use knowledge of their land to work with the weather, not battle against it"

In your field: Helen Stanier – "I would like to see farmers given greater opportunity to use knowledge of their land to work with the weather, not battle against it"

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

In your field
Helen Stanier
clock 02 March 2026 • 2 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Stuart Sadler: "Our milk buyer didn't pick up our milk for four days"

clock 02 March 2026 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: James Robinson – "A generational farming baton has been passed down to me: Dad has retired from mole catching"

clock 01 March 2026 • 3 min read
Dairy

Dairy Matters - Mark Chatterton: 'If support is thinning, margins need to fatten'

clock 01 March 2026 • 5 min read
Environment

Farming Matters – Alastair Leake: "Resilience to climate change needs to come in many forms"

clock 28 February 2026 • 4 min read
Farm Business

Road to Regen: Top tips to avoid overgrazing in the spring

clock 27 February 2026 • 6 min read
Blogs

OPINION: Does the betrayal over IHT mean partnership with Defra will never be possible?

clock 27 February 2026 • 2 min read
OPINION: Abby Allen - "If we want a sustainable future, it starts with education, and it starts with young"

Young Farmers and Careers

OPINION: Abby Allen - "If we want a sustainable future, it starts with education, and it starts with young"

As an ambassador for Soil Ed, an education campaign that aims to get food and farming embedded onto the national curriculum, the subject is close to Abby's heart

clock 26 February 2026 • 1 min read
Was there a change in mood at this year's NFU Conference?

Farm Business

Was there a change in mood at this year's NFU Conference?

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

clock 26 February 2026 • 2 min read
Roger Evans: "It says little for the value of milk"

Dairy

Roger Evans: "It says little for the value of milk"

This month, Roger Evans discusses the value of milk, work ethic and hare coursers

clock 26 February 2026 • 4 min read