Opinion and blogs

OPINION: I feel 'silly season' may be about to begin

OPINION: I feel 'silly season' may be about to begin

Livestock specialist Katie Fallon looks ahead to the start of this year's silage season

Livestock
Katie Fallon
clock 28 April 2026 • 1 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "Calving has been going relatively well this spring without too many issues"

clock 28 April 2026 • 4 min read
Energy

Letters: "One would imagine that 'climate change' would be a peripheral area in any Welsh Gov budget. But for years it has been the fourth biggest expenditure"

clock 28 April 2026 • 2 min read
Education

OPINION: I took some farmers into my local school and saw the children come alive

clock 27 April 2026 • 2 min read
Livestock

OPINION: Are we breeding out stockmanship from the next generation?

clock 27 April 2026 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Emma Robinson – "It has been very inspiring to offer two students experience on-farm"

clock 27 April 2026 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell – "Jackdaws are an absolute pain in the neck with their attempts to build nests in the most ridiculous places around the farm"

clock 26 April 2026 • 3 min read
From the editor: Food, farming and supply chain fairness

Politics

From the editor: Food, farming and supply chain fairness

This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

clock 24 April 2026 • 2 min read
OPINION: Failure to take food security seriously now will lead to empty shelves sooner rather than later

Politics

OPINION: Failure to take food security seriously now will lead to empty shelves sooner rather than later

If war in the Middle East has taught us anything, it is that the UK needs to build a resilient food system which values domestic food production and the farmers who work incredibly hard to make that a reality

clock 24 April 2026 • 3 min read
OPINION: Is resilience intertwined with diversification?

Arable

OPINION: Is resilience intertwined with diversification?

Head of arable Ash Ellwood shares tips she had from Jeremy Clarkson and Charlie Ireland on how to build farming business resilience

clock 23 April 2026 • 2 min read