Opinion and blogs

View from the rostrum: Richard Hyde - Cruel blow to family farms

View from the rostrum: Richard Hyde - Cruel blow to family farms

Richard Hyde on family farm tax and 2024 trade

Shows & Sales
Farmers Guardian
clock 08 January 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Business

Emma Mosey - chair of the Farm Retail Association: "We [farmers] need to become storytellers, sharing the passion and dedication that goes into producing our food"

clock 08 January 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

John Swinney - Scotland's First Minister on the Scottish Budget: "If we are going to recover and renew as a nation, then we have to come together as a nation"

clock 07 January 2025 • 15 min read
Farm Business

Jeremy Moody - Central Association for Agricultural Valuers on the family farm tax: "Do farmers move to owning less land and having more on tenancy and other arrangements?"

clock 06 January 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Tim Eagle - Shadow Rural Affairs Secretary: "Our farmers and crofters keep the supermarket shelves filled, they act as custodians of our beautiful countryside, and are the backbone of our rural communities"

clock 06 January 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Tom Kirk: "Lucy was such a special person"

clock 05 January 2025 • 2 min read
Farm Business

NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy on the family farm tax: "The UK Government is completely missing the target"

clock 04 January 2025 • 5 min read
Michael Miller- Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner: What Politicians are Missing

Farm Life

Michael Miller- Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner: What Politicians are Missing

Michael Miller specialises in Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner at law firm Spencer West LLP

clock 03 January 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Emma Robinson - "The consumer is waking up to the traceability of food, but people have to realise supermarkets are convenience stores"

In your field

In your field: Emma Robinson - "The consumer is waking up to the traceability of food, but people have to realise supermarkets are convenience stores"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

clock 02 January 2025 • 3 min read
OPINION: It may be difficult for farming to look ahead this New Year, but focus on what you can control

Blogs

OPINION: It may be difficult for farming to look ahead this New Year, but focus on what you can control

Farmers Guardian's online editor Emily Ashworth reflects on the last few months but urges the industry to remember the value of what farming does

clock 01 January 2025 • 2 min read