Opinion and blogs

In Your Field – Dan Hawes: "Our flexible solar panel strips create more energy than we can use"

In Your Field – Dan Hawes: "Our flexible solar panel strips create more energy than we can use"

Dan Hawes produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, Kent. The arable side of the business includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Farm Life
Farmers Guardian
clock 09 June 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Life

In Your Field – Alan Carter: "I don't pretend to know everything about cows, but I know the type I would like to go through a parlour"

clock 08 June 2025 • 3 min read
Livestock

Farming Matters – "Meat is not the enemy – stop blaming the cow and start fixing the system"

clock 07 June 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

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

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

Farm Life

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

After receiving questions on social media about Asda selling beef from South America, Emma Gray questions the system: why is it easier from meat from abroad to hit the shelves, rather than her own?

clock 05 June 2025 • 2 min read
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"

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"

Rural education campaigner Olivia Shave writes about how farmers are being sidelined in the debate around a ban on junk food advertising

clock 04 June 2025 • 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Jacob Bayliss: "I owe a great deal to Kaleb Cooper for inspiring me"

Young Farmer Focus

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

Royal Agricultural University student Jacob Bayliss discusses why he chose to study agriculture, the influence of Kaleb Cooper and Clarkson's Farm on his decision, and his hopes for the future

clock 04 June 2025 • 3 min read