Opinion and blogs

Road to regen: Silas Hedley-Lawrence - "There is a lot of low hanging fruit to make small tweaks in any farming business to help reduce costs"

Road to regen: Silas Hedley-Lawrence - "There is a lot of low hanging fruit to make small tweaks in any farming business to help reduce costs"

Silas Hedley–Lawrence is a farmer, coach and consultant with a decade of hands-on experience in regenerative agriculture. With a background rooted in both commercial and direct selling models, he champions lean, profitable farming systems that increase biodiversity and soil health. Silas is an Integrity Soils trained agroecological coach from the Yellowstone 2024 cohort

Farm Business
Silas Hedley-Lawrence
clock 25 July 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Safety

OPINION - Farm Safety Week: Can farming overcome its poor safety record?

clock 25 July 2025 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: Farage's pitch to Wales strikes right at the heart of rural anxieties

clock 24 July 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Steve Barclay: "Sacrificing UK progress on gene editing would risk seeing us fall behind other countries"

clock 24 July 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Caroline Voaden: "The Autumn Budget set the tone for what we have seen in Labour's first year in office"

clock 23 July 2025 • 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Georgina Milne: "The answers are not in Westminster, they are in the field"

clock 23 July 2025 • 2 min read
Shows & Sales

View from the Rostrum: Alastair Sneddon - "After coming to Monday market at Bakewell each week for 47 years, I have no intention of stopping"

clock 22 July 2025 • 4 min read
Emma Gray's Farming Life: "These little decisions, like when to sell lambs, can make or break the year"

Farm Life

Emma Gray's Farming Life: "These little decisions, like when to sell lambs, can make or break the year"

Shepherdess and top sheepdog triallist Emma Gray discusses the gamble behind everyday farming choices, from when to market lambs to whether to vaccinate

clock 21 July 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - "It's the highlight of my year to head up to the top of Hundleshope Heights to gather sheep on a beautiful summer's day"

In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "It's the highlight of my year to head up to the top of Hundleshope Heights to gather sheep on a beautiful summer's day"

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

clock 20 July 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Seeing the end result through direct selling has filled me with such a great sense of pride in what we do"

In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Seeing the end result through direct selling has filled me with such a great sense of pride in what we do"

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

clock 19 July 2025 • 3 min read