Opinion and blogs

In your field: Dan Hawes - "All I need now is some good weather and a bit of free time – fingers crossed"

In your field: Dan Hawes - "All I need now is some good weather and a bit of free time – fingers crossed"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops.

In your field
Farmers Guardian
clock 23 June 2024 • 3 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Gemma Smale-Rowland: "A small barbed wire cut led to a trip to A&E and resulted in sepsis"

clock 23 June 2024 • 4 min read
In your field

In your field: Alan Carter - 'We had a couple of days at the Royal Cornwall Show – a highlight of our year'

clock 22 June 2024 • 3 min read
Politics

Lizzie Hacking - Conservative Rural Forum chair: "87 words was the best the Labour manifesto had to offer on farming"

clock 22 June 2024 • 3 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "With much graft and determination we carved out a result"

clock 21 June 2024 • 4 min read
Politics

From the editor: Sheep turn their backs on Prime Minister, but have rural voters?

clock 20 June 2024 • 2 min read
Politics

Douglas Ross - leader of the Scottish Conservatives on the General Election: "We will be the voice of our farming and rural communities"

clock 20 June 2024 • 3 min read
Dr Lucy Beattie - Scottish National Party candidate on the General Election: "Rural people are resilient and fiercely independent"

Politics

Dr Lucy Beattie - Scottish National Party candidate on the General Election: "Rural people are resilient and fiercely independent"

Farmer turned SNP candidate for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Dr Lucy Beattie said it would be a privilege to represent constituents in a place where she lives and works

clock 19 June 2024 • 4 min read
Gareth Parry - Farmers' Union of Wales: "Welsh farming is at an important crossroads"

Politics

Gareth Parry - Farmers' Union of Wales: "Welsh farming is at an important crossroads"

Head of policy at FUW, Mr Parry has provided an insight on the agricultural budget and the ramifications of agricultural policies within manifestos which could impact Welsh farmers

clock 19 June 2024 • 3 min read
In your field: Dan Jones - "Laughter can be the best reward for a day's work"

In your field

In your field: Dan Jones - "Laughter can be the best reward for a day's work"

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno. His Farm Business Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill

clock 18 June 2024 • 2 min read