Blogs

After publishing an article on diversity, digital editor Emily Ashworth reflects on the mixed reaction

Digital editor Emily Ashworth explores the idea of diversity, and questions why we are sometimes too quick to shut the conversation down

This month, Roger Evans talks about his school days, terrifying teachers and how learning to speak French surprisingly paid off

Head of arable Ash Ellwood lives on a farm in Cheshire, where she and her husband, Will, have recently begun rearing beef calves, diversified into equine livery, and purchased 12 pedigree breeding ewes

Bas Padberg, chair of The Dairy Roadmap, says that sustainability has to be a practical, business-relevant strategy that works for farms today

Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 200 pedigree Holsteins under the Springlebee prefix at Centenary Farm, a Cheshire county council farm. In 2021, they bought a farm in Staffordshire and they plan to farm there once the new dairy set-up has been built.

In the last of a three-month exclusive column for Farmers Guardian, Clarkson's Farm star Harriet Cowan talks about coming full-circle back to farming and how the industry is part of who she is

This month, Roger Evans discusses the value of milk, work ethic and hare coursers

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

Nicola is a third-generation farmer from Aberdeenshire. Alongside her dad, George, she farms 560 hectares (1,400 acres) with 240 Simmental-cross suckler cows and 1,000 Scotch Mule ewes and a small acreage of spring barley, forage rape and neeps to feed the livestock. She is also known as @livestock_farmher on social media where she gives her view of farming life