Opinion and blogs

In your field: Kate Rowell - "As with many farming couples, we are a team"

In your field: Kate Rowell - "As with many farming couples, we are a team"

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

In your field
Farmers Guardian
clock 08 September 2024 • 3 min read
Politics

Tom Tugendhat - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "The agricultural industry is the glue that binds our rural areas together"

clock 08 September 2024 • 3 min read
Politics

Mel Stride - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "I will constantly challenge Labour to ensure that our countryside is not concreted over"

clock 07 September 2024 • 8 min read
In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "One such fight saw me physically throw her over a chicken coop"

clock 07 September 2024 • 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: While politicians gear up for change, farming needs to keep reminding them of its vital role

clock 05 September 2024 • 2 min read
In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "It's only farmers who visit other farms on their day off"

clock 05 September 2024 • 2 min read
Environment

Farming Matters: George Parkinson - "Housebuilding – a permanent loss of food production"

clock 04 September 2024 • 3 min read
Robert Jenrick - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "I would push for key agricultural land to be protected from being developed as solar farms"

Politics

Robert Jenrick - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "I would push for key agricultural land to be protected from being developed as solar farms"

Mr Jenrick is one of six candidates standing to be the next Conservative Party leader

clock 04 September 2024 • 5 min read
Farm inspections to learn lessons from Ofsted rating review - Rita Poulson: "Language is a powerful tool and words can be very damaging"

Blogs

Farm inspections to learn lessons from Ofsted rating review - Rita Poulson: "Language is a powerful tool and words can be very damaging"

The widow of farmer Rocky Poulson, who ended his life four days after a farm inspection, reflects on the similarities between what happened to her husband and the tragic case of headteacher Ruth Perry, who took her own life after Ofsted inspectors said they would downgrade the school from outstanding to the lowest grade - inadequate

clock 03 September 2024 • 3 min read
James Robinson: "There are still thousands of farms in old HLS agreements, some of which were started over 15 years ago"

Politics

James Robinson: "There are still thousands of farms in old HLS agreements, some of which were started over 15 years ago"

After fronting a successful farmer-led campaign to allow more farms into Higher-Tier Scheme agreements, FG columnist James Robinson welcomed Government officials on-farm to discuss just how important this is

clock 02 September 2024 • 5 min read