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Road to regen: Silas Hedley-Lawrence - "You are what you eat, and so are your livestock"

Soil

Road to regen: Silas Hedley-Lawrence - "You are what you eat, and so are your livestock"

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

clock 01 May 2026 • 4 min read
Roger Evans: "A conversation about JCBs can be quite disconcerting"

Dairy

Roger Evans: "A conversation about JCBs can be quite disconcerting"

This month, Roger Evans talks about visiting Scotland, his car journeys there and some highlights from his various holidays there

clock 05 April 2026 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "It does show how easy it would be for a serving season to go badly wrong"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "It does show how easy it would be for a serving season to go badly wrong"

Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place, near Edenbridge, Kent

clock 24 March 2026 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk - Robert Reed: 'A crash in milk price is not what we need'

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Robert Reed: 'A crash in milk price is not what we need'

Farming 405 hectares (1,000 acres), a mix of tenanted and owned land at Gatcombe Farm, near Seaton, Devon, Robert Reed and his family milk 350 all-year-round calving Holstein cows via five robots and are achieving average yields of 12,000 litres

clock 31 January 2026 • 4 min read
Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "As much as it is painful to see such turbulence, there is nothing that quite focuses one's mind on-farm than when times are lean"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "As much as it is painful to see such turbulence, there is nothing that quite focuses one's mind on-farm than when times are lean"

Ifan Roberts is a new entrant who has established a contract farming agreement milking 500 block calving cows in Cheshire, and is aiming to improve the land farmed, encourage others to participate in the industry and deliver attractive returns to his stakeholders

clock 25 January 2026 • 3 min read
Farming Matters - Tim Rooke: "If the UK wants a strong potato sector, we need the tools to do the job properly"

Arable

Farming Matters - Tim Rooke: "If the UK wants a strong potato sector, we need the tools to do the job properly"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Tim Rooke, North Yorkshire potato farmer and vice-chair of the NFU Horticulture and Potatoes Board

clock 13 December 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson – "It's the proudest I have ever felt of myself and I am forever grateful for that"

In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson – "It's the proudest I have ever felt of myself and I am forever grateful for that"

Amy Wilkinson, who worked on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire, writes her final blog for Farmers Guardian as she embarks on a new challenge working in Ireland for McHale. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

clock 01 November 2025 • 3 min read
OPINION: Yet another disease for farmers to contend with

Blogs

OPINION: Yet another disease for farmers to contend with

This week from Farmers Guardian's livestock specialist Katie Fallon

clock 04 August 2025 • 1 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

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

clock 19 January 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Dan Jones - "More invertebrates on the Great Orme than any other surveyed place in Wales"

Farm Life

In your field: Dan Jones - "More invertebrates on the Great Orme than any other surveyed place in Wales"

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

clock 12 January 2025 • 2 min read