Opinion and blogs

From the lambing shed: Delivering twins - with a bit of help

From the lambing shed: Delivering twins - with a bit of help

This blog highlights farmers' thoughts and experiences during lambing 2025. In this video blog, teacher and farmer Shane Auckland reflects on lambing time

Livestock
Emily Ashworth
clock 10 April 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Harry Morley: "If I am being honest, poultry is a part of agriculture I would perhaps not have considered beforehand until now"

clock 09 April 2025 • 2 min read
Environment

Farming Matters: "Recent policies raise a fundamental question: is this a government we can trust to make informed decisions for the future of our food security?"

clock 08 April 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

Danny Chambers: "We should not sell out British farmers for a handshake with a man who cannot be trusted"

clock 08 April 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "As ever at this time of year, the outside world has faded into the background and our lives are lived almost entirely in the lambing shed"

clock 08 April 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "I have had to construct H.M. suckler prison with sheep netting across the head rails of the pen to prevent future escapades"

clock 06 April 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

Alistair Carmichael on US-UK trade deal: "The last thing we can afford now is to treat farming as 'expendable'"

clock 05 April 2025 • 3 min read
OPINION: Health adverts should focus on ultra-processed foods, not demonising dairy

Blogs

OPINION: Health adverts should focus on ultra-processed foods, not demonising dairy

Online editor Emily Ashworth questions the impact a new anti-dairy advert shown in cinemas and mainstream TV channels could have on the nation's health - and the environment

clock 04 April 2025 • 1 min read
OPINION: Treasury may project that Inheritance Tax could raise £520 million a year, it has to be weighed against what the NHS could lose

Politics

OPINION: Treasury may project that Inheritance Tax could raise £520 million a year, it has to be weighed against what the NHS could lose

Sarah Jordan, partner, real estate, landed estates and farming at Moore Barlow, says Inheritance Tax will impact the whole of society and those who are already 'food insecure'

clock 04 April 2025 • 3 min read
From the editor: It's an important time for farming - and for FG too

Blogs

From the editor: It's an important time for farming - and for FG too

This week Farmers Guardian sees former editor Olivia Midgley take on a new role as editorial director, passing the baton to former livestock editor Katie Jones

clock 03 April 2025 • 1 min read