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From the editor: Good news tarnished by lack of planning and communication

From the editor: Good news tarnished by lack of planning and communication

This week from Farmers Guardian acting editor Katie Jones

Politics
Katie Jones
Katie Jones
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
Farm Life

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

clock 05 June 2025 • 2 min read
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"

clock 04 June 2025 • 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus

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

clock 04 June 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

Alan Brown: "The serious decline of our domestic beef sector is nothing less than a disgrace"

clock 03 June 2025 • 3 min read
Environment

Letters: "Programmes like Springwatch often fail in their duty to educate and inform of the full picture [on badgers]"

clock 03 June 2025 • 1 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "Defra has been consigned to irrelevance by Labour"

Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "Defra has been consigned to irrelevance by Labour"

Conservative MP Aphra Brandreth discusses how Chancellor Rachel Reeves' proposed cuts to the nature-friendly farming budget at the Spending Review could diminish farmers' confidence in Government and Defra

clock 02 June 2025 • 3 min read
In your field – James and Isobel Wright: "For the first time since moving here, the grazing is starting to look how we want"

Farm Life

In your field – James and Isobel Wright: "For the first time since moving here, the grazing is starting to look how we want"

James and Isobel have three young children and recently bought their first farm, running beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager

clock 02 June 2025 • 2 min read
In your field – Dan Jones: "It was a real joy to open up the farm and share a tradition that's so central to how we farm up here"

Livestock

In your field – Dan Jones: "It was a real joy to open up the farm and share a tradition that's so central to how we farm up here"

Dan farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

clock 01 June 2025 • 3 min read