Opinion and blogs

EXCLUSIVE - Dr Caroline Johnson: "Food production is being deprioritised"

EXCLUSIVE - Dr Caroline Johnson: "Food production is being deprioritised"

Sleaford and North Hykeham MP Dr Caroline Johnson writes for Farmers Guardian on how Inheritance Tax changes are impacting farming families and how solar farms are undermining farmers' ability to produce food

Politics
Farmers Guardian
clock 06 June 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Life

OPINION: We have protested and fought for change, but it has fallen on deaf ears - #farm24 is our chance to unite

clock 06 June 2025 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: Good news tarnished by lack of planning and communication

clock 05 June 2025 • 2 min read
Arable

Driving farm productivity and efficiency through oxyfertigation and carbon dioxide irrigation

clock 05 June 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Life

Emma Gray's Farming Life: Asda's Uruguayan beef scandal made us wonder if we could sell our own meat

clock 05 June 2025 • 2 min read
Education

Rural Education Matters – Olivia Shave: "I am here to disrupt, to call out the powers that be, and to fight for the future of British food and farming"

clock 04 June 2025 • 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Jacob Bayliss: "I owe a great deal to Kaleb Cooper for inspiring me"

clock 04 June 2025 • 3 min read
Alan Brown: "The serious decline of our domestic beef sector is nothing less than a disgrace"

Politics

Alan Brown: "The serious decline of our domestic beef sector is nothing less than a disgrace"

Scottish Association of Meat Wholesaler's president Alan Brown discusses declining beef numbers in Scotland which he said has been exacerbated by Government policy inaction and policy failure

clock 03 June 2025 • 3 min read
Letters: "Programmes like Springwatch often fail in their duty to educate and inform of the full picture [on badgers]"

Environment

Letters: "Programmes like Springwatch often fail in their duty to educate and inform of the full picture [on badgers]"

Elizabeth Heaton, from Leyburn, North Yorkshire, writes to express her dismay at the portrayal of the UK's badger population in the BBC's latest series of Springwatch

clock 03 June 2025 • 1 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "Defra has been consigned to irrelevance by Labour"

Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "Defra has been consigned to irrelevance by Labour"

Conservative MP Aphra Brandreth discusses how Chancellor Rachel Reeves' proposed cuts to the nature-friendly farming budget at the Spending Review could diminish farmers' confidence in Government and Defra

clock 02 June 2025 • 3 min read