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In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Maybe we'd all feel a bit less stressed if we farmed to live, not the other way round"

In your field

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Maybe we'd all feel a bit less stressed if we farmed to live, not the other way round"

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm.

clock 26 April 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Labour's assault on rural communities makes it vital we have strong voices"

In your field

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Labour's assault on rural communities makes it vital we have strong voices"

James and Isobel have three young children and recently bought their first farm, running beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager

clock 23 March 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

In your field

In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a parish councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

clock 22 February 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Dan Jones - "The loss of a sheepdog is heartbreaking. I recently lost my trusted collie, Blaze... We had built a trusted bond over countless hours of shared experiences"

In your field

In your field: Dan Jones - "The loss of a sheepdog is heartbreaking. I recently lost my trusted collie, Blaze... We had built a trusted bond over countless hours of shared experiences"

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 16 February 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Emma Robinson - "The consumer is waking up to the traceability of food, but people have to realise supermarkets are convenience stores"

In your field

In your field: Emma Robinson - "The consumer is waking up to the traceability of food, but people have to realise supermarkets are convenience stores"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

clock 02 January 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Grandma has become even more of a celebrity"

In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Grandma has become even more of a celebrity"

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

clock 14 October 2024 • 3 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - "We've just been away on honeymoon – only 25 years after the wedding"

In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "We've just been away on honeymoon – only 25 years after the wedding"

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland.

clock 12 October 2024 • 3 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Charlotte Harris: "Farming has the power to bring people together"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Charlotte Harris: "Farming has the power to bring people together"

Charlotte Harris, 21, is a shepherdess from Strathaven in South Lanarkshire. She now runs her own equine and shepherdess business in Scotland

clock 22 September 2024 • 2 min read
Survey reveals nearly 50% of farmers take less than a week off work each year

Mental Health

Survey reveals nearly 50% of farmers take less than a week off work each year

Around 41% of those who completed the survey had cited worrying about the farm as a major barrier to taking an overnight break

clock 16 September 2024 • 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Evie Winston: "Unfortunately, Britain's wet weather only gets wetter"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Evie Winston: "Unfortunately, Britain's wet weather only gets wetter"

Evie Winston, 17, works for land drainage company BPG Contractors, and she is from Oldham in Greater Manchester

clock 12 September 2024 • 2 min read