Opinion and blogs

Farm Business

Geoff Sansome - Oxford Farming Conference chair: "UK farming now faces a complex array of changes"

clock 08 January 2025 • 4 min read
Shows & Sales

View from the rostrum: Richard Hyde - Cruel blow to family farms

clock 08 January 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Business

Emma Mosey - chair of the Farm Retail Association: "We [farmers] need to become storytellers, sharing the passion and dedication that goes into producing our food"

clock 08 January 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

John Swinney - Scotland's First Minister on the Scottish Budget: "If we are going to recover and renew as a nation, then we have to come together as a nation"

clock 07 January 2025 • 15 min read
Farm Business

Jeremy Moody - Central Association for Agricultural Valuers on the family farm tax: "Do farmers move to owning less land and having more on tenancy and other arrangements?"

clock 06 January 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Tim Eagle - Shadow Rural Affairs Secretary: "Our farmers and crofters keep the supermarket shelves filled, they act as custodians of our beautiful countryside, and are the backbone of our rural communities"

clock 06 January 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Tom Kirk: "Lucy was such a special person"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Tom Kirk: "Lucy was such a special person"

Tom writes about how the farming community in Cumbria came together last month to remember his sister Lucy who died from cancer

clock 05 January 2025 • 2 min read
NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy on the family farm tax: "The UK Government is completely missing the target"

Farm Business

NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy on the family farm tax: "The UK Government is completely missing the target"

"Not only is this figure wrong as it was based on a snapshot of 2021 data and values have now considerably changed, but it is also disingenuous on the UK Government to say only 500 (farms) are affected"

clock 04 January 2025 • 5 min read
Michael Miller- Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner: What Politicians are Missing

Farm Life

Michael Miller- Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner: What Politicians are Missing

Michael Miller specialises in Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner at law firm Spencer West LLP

clock 03 January 2025 • 3 min read