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George Mathews writes on his life as a watercress farmer in Dorset

Average price of bare agricultural land fell by 1.6% during the third quarter of 2025, bringing the annual decline to 6.8%

Farming company could see it serve notice on 20% of its management contracts

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Lawrence Jones, Devon, discusses how many principles of modern regenerative farming have their roots in historical agricultural practices, which are now being revived and adapted to contemporary systems

Low prices and rising costs mean profitability in the combinable crop sector is projected to fall below its long term trend

Farmers' Weather this week by Dr Simon Keeling

2024 and 2025 have delivered challenging years for arable growers. Hope is on the horizon for 2026, provided yields can stabilise

Silas Hedley–Lawrence is a farmer, coach and consultant with a decade of hands-on experience in regenerative agriculture. With a background rooted in both commercial and direct selling models, he champions lean, profitable farming systems that increase biodiversity and soil health. Silas is an Integrity Soils trained agroecological coach from the Yellowstone 2024 cohort

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.

At the now infamous NFU Conference in 2023, Sir Keir Starmer said solar energy infrastructure should not come at the expense of tenant farmers and food production. But TFA chief executive George Dunn said a recent outcome for tenants in North Yorkshire would suggest otherwise