Opinion and blogs

Professor David Rose: "Government, including Defra, must recognise that their language and actions can be one of the major causes of poor farmer wellbeing"

Professor David Rose: "Government, including Defra, must recognise that their language and actions can be one of the major causes of poor farmer wellbeing"

Professor Rose has provided five tips for Government to tackle both causes of, and support for, poor farmer wellbeing

Mental Health
Chris Brayford
Chris Brayford
clock 25 February 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Letters: "Surely a better option would be to scrap APR altogether, but with exemptions"

clock 25 February 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

Labour MP Steve Witherden on IHT: "I asked the Treasury to raise the threshold to target the tax-dodging multinationals... there is still time for this to be put right"

clock 24 February 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "February is an important month for us in the strawberry propagation world"

clock 23 February 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

clock 22 February 2025 • 3 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Elise Sutton: "From milk to meat, they get the job done"

clock 22 February 2025 • 2 min read
Mental Health

Edward Morello - Lib Dems MP: "The Farming Resilience Fund is still needed and the decision to end it will have foreseeable consequences"

clock 21 February 2025 • 3 min read
OPINION: "How long can beef prices keep moving up?"

Beef

OPINION: "How long can beef prices keep moving up?"

Farmers Guardian's head of livestock sales and markets Angela Calvert reflects on the sustained upward trend in beef prices

clock 21 February 2025 • 1 min read
The Farmers Guardian Podcast: Scotland's new Tenant Farming Commissioner calls for more face-to-face conversations between tenants and landlords

Podcasts

The Farmers Guardian Podcast: Scotland's new Tenant Farming Commissioner calls for more face-to-face conversations between tenants and landlords

Rob Black said often tenants make assumptions of their landlords and vice versa. He said there was a need for more ‘genuine conversations’ encouraging landlords and tenants to ‘sit down and talk to each other’

clock 21 February 2025 • 1 min read
From the editor: The Government will not back down, but neither will farmers

Politics

From the editor: The Government will not back down, but neither will farmers

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

clock 20 February 2025 • 2 min read