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Rural education matters: Olivia Shave - "There is a genuine appetite to reconnect young people with the land"

Education

Rural education matters: Olivia Shave - "There is a genuine appetite to reconnect young people with the land"

Olivia Shave is the founder of farming education campaign Soil Ed, which aims to get sustainability, farming and food onto the national curriculum. Over the last two years, the campaign has gained cross-party support and multiple high-profile ambassadors

clock 24 March 2026 • 1 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
Letters: "It is not well known that the British Government was no longer in charge of policy on foot-and-mouth in 2001"

Animal Health

Letters: "It is not well known that the British Government was no longer in charge of policy on foot-and-mouth in 2001"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Duncan Pickard, Balmullo, Scotland, discusses the risks of illegal meat imports and the lessons from past foot-and-mouth outbreaks, questioning whether the UK is now better prepared to respond

clock 24 March 2026 • 1 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell – "It's definitely brought home to me just how much we rely on our family to get things done on-farm"

In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell – "It's definitely brought home to me just how much we rely on our family to get things done on-farm"

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 23 March 2026 • 3 min read
In your field: Emma Robinson – "We are not due to start lambing until March 25, but thanks to a neighbouring farm's ram lamb, we have started sooner. Good job we are not pedigree"

In your field

In your field: Emma Robinson – "We are not due to start lambing until March 25, but thanks to a neighbouring farm's ram lamb, we have started sooner. Good job we are not pedigree"

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 volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) and is chair of RABI Monmouthshire

clock 22 March 2026 • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Cowan - "Behind the tidy Instagram squares, there are 5am alarms, frozen pipes and vet bills that make your stomach drop"

Farm Life

EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Cowan - "Behind the tidy Instagram squares, there are 5am alarms, frozen pipes and vet bills that make your stomach drop"

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

clock 22 March 2026 • 4 min read
Farming Matters: Phil Hambling – "Public debate overlooks the quiet progress being made on livestock emissions"

Environment

Farming Matters: Phil Hambling – "Public debate overlooks the quiet progress being made on livestock emissions"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Phil Hambling, director of agriculture and sustainable sourcing at ABP UK

clock 21 March 2026 • 3 min read
OPINION: Inheritance Tax consultation could have avoided 18 months of heartache

Politics

OPINION: Inheritance Tax consultation could have avoided 18 months of heartache

Deputy editor Alex Black reflects on this week's High Court case

clock 20 March 2026 • 2 min read
OPINION: "Open the farm gate, muddy the public's trainers and change how they see farming"

Farm Life

OPINION: "Open the farm gate, muddy the public's trainers and change how they see farming"

As LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) encourages farmers to open their gates for Open Farm Sunday on June 7, Farmers Guardian's editorial director Olivia Midgley reflects on the quiet but powerful influence such encounters can have on the public

clock 19 March 2026 • 2 min read
From the editor: England's first Land Use Framework finally unveiled, but what does it mean for farmers?

Politics

From the editor: England's first Land Use Framework finally unveiled, but what does it mean for farmers?

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

clock 19 March 2026 • 2 min read