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Letters: "Increasing the homegrown food supply should be a national security issue of the 'highest priority'"

Farm Life

Letters: "Increasing the homegrown food supply should be a national security issue of the 'highest priority'"

Stephen Ramsden, Harrogate, discusses UK food security following news that lamb and beef production have fallen significantly in recent decades

clock 17 June 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "I don't get the problem – if we are happy to export beef, we have to also be happy to import it"

Beef

Letters: "I don't get the problem – if we are happy to export beef, we have to also be happy to import it"

Readers had their say on Facebook following the news Asda was stocking Uruguayan beef in stores

clock 12 June 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "This is an important opportunity for women in farming to share their views"

Farm Life

Letters: "This is an important opportunity for women in farming to share their views"

Linda Jones, national manager, FCN Cymru, writes to encourage women in farming to take part in a research study on health and well-being which the FCN is conducting in collaboration with the University of Exeter

clock 27 May 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "It is a brilliant opportunity to show the public where their food comes from"

Education

Letters: "It is a brilliant opportunity to show the public where their food comes from"

Sophie Gregory, Dorset, writes about her farm's upcoming Open Farm Sunday event

clock 13 May 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "Those fools whose shelves are filled with plenty... Will only learn when their bellies are empty"

Politics

Letters: "Those fools whose shelves are filled with plenty... Will only learn when their bellies are empty"

A poem by W.S. Towers on the current state of the farming industry

clock 06 May 2025 • 2 min read
Letters: "To safeguard our farms and rural communities, the police must take further, targeted action"

Rural crime

Letters: "To safeguard our farms and rural communities, the police must take further, targeted action"

Alex Cotterill, a student at the University of Nottinghamshire, writes about rural crime and how it could be tackled

clock 06 May 2025 • 3 min read
Letters: "Get the plough out and farm every last inch of your farm like it's World War Three"

Farm Business

Letters: "Get the plough out and farm every last inch of your farm like it's World War Three"

Ben Stanley, Derbyshire, writes about delayed SFI payments and how those who missed out should think themselves lucky

clock 29 April 2025 • 2 min read
Letters: "Encouraging landscape-scale nature-friendly farming and nature recovery schemes is crucial"

Environment

Letters: "Encouraging landscape-scale nature-friendly farming and nature recovery schemes is crucial"

Richard Broadbent, an environmental lawyer at Freeths, writes that landowners require certainty, clarity and careful forward planning if we are to reverse the chronic biodiversity decline we have seen over the past 100 years

clock 23 April 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "Rural Scotland matters. It is time those in power acted like it"

Rural Development

Letters: "Rural Scotland matters. It is time those in power acted like it"

Cllr Alastair Redman, Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, writes about the continued decline of and 'serious investment' needed in rural services

clock 22 April 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: "Good luck and good fortune will play a role as equally important as good tax planning"

Politics

Letters: "Good luck and good fortune will play a role as equally important as good tax planning"

Richard Barnett, of The Rural Partnership Group, Cheshire, responds to Andy Welford's Farming Matters column (FG, March 21) and shares his views on the Treasury's Inheritance Tax reforms

clock 17 April 2025 • 1 min read