Opinion and blogs

Farming Matters: "You can try to expel nature with a pitchfork, but it will always return"

Farming Matters: "You can try to expel nature with a pitchfork, but it will always return"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Chris Clark, first generation Yorkshire upland farmer and author

Environment
Farmers Guardian
clock 16 June 2025 • 4 min read
In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "Huge respect to all those farming in remote areas and thank you for welcoming us soft mainlanders when we visit"

clock 15 June 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "I ran after the cattle through brambles and rhododendron bushes for hours"

clock 14 June 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

OPINION: Farm profitability – While the Government pats itself on the back, confidence plummets

clock 13 June 2025 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: Spending Review not as bad as feared, but where will the money be spent?

clock 12 June 2025 • 2 min read
Beef

Letters: "I don't get the problem – if we are happy to export beef, we have to also be happy to import it"

clock 12 June 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus – Maria Warne-Elston: "I have watched three generations of women before me become unsung heroes"

clock 11 June 2025 • 3 min read
Letters: "It is time that farmers and graziers should take precedence [in the uplands]"

Farm Life

Letters: "It is time that farmers and graziers should take precedence [in the uplands]"

Fairfax Luxmoore, Plymouth, writes to draw readers' attention to the 'gross mismanagement' of Old Winchester Hill [South Downs National Park, Hampshire]

clock 10 June 2025 • 2 min read
Hugh Pocock: "These technologies promise a more efficient, sustainable and prosperous future in farming"

Dairy

Hugh Pocock: "These technologies promise a more efficient, sustainable and prosperous future in farming"

Hugh Pocock, director at Cultura Connect, provides an insight into his visit to the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in Dallas

clock 10 June 2025 • 5 min read
The Spending Review: Will it be well spent?

Politics

The Spending Review: Will it be well spent?

Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser to the CAAV, takes a look ahead to Wednesday’s Spending Review

clock 09 June 2025 • 5 min read