Advice

With lamb performance heavily reliant on the ewe’s milk supply, ensuring ewes are in the best condition pre-and post-lambing is key to achieving high lamb growth rates.

Farmers are being urged to keep a close eye on expensive kit after a new report revealed a sharp increase in GPS theft.

Alex Phillips is a partner and head of the agriculture and rural affairs division at law firm mfg Solicitors.

Dairy farmers will have to weather prices falling further throughout spring before any hope of stabilisation later in the year.

Sophie Ascroft is currently on the McDonald’s Progressive Young Farmer scheme, but her journey took an unexpected turn before finding her place back in the industry. Here, she shares her personal experience with Farmers Guardian.

Access to financing plus greater guidance and support will be key if UK farmers are to achieve the goal of carbon net zero by 2050, a new cross-industry report explains.

Annabel Makin-Jones is a fifth generation Yorkshire farmer and founder of Annabel’s Deliciously British and Tame & Wild.

Irregular and long working hours, fluctuations in prices and having to put down pigs on farm for animal welfare reasons are affecting farmers’ and workers’ mental health on pig and sheep farms.

After taking over Hope Farm in 2000, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is using the land as a testbed to demonstrate how farmers can transition to more nature-friendly practices while remaining commercially profitable.