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Young Farmer Focus - Alexandra Godfrey: "Everyone has a place in the rural sector"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Alexandra Godfrey: "Everyone has a place in the rural sector"

Alexandra Godfrey, 21, is from Newbury in Berkshire. She has recently completed an Agricultural degree at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and has served as the establishment's president of the student union.

clock 09 September 2024 • 2 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - "As with many farming couples, we are a team"

In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "As with many farming couples, we are a team"

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 08 September 2024 • 3 min read
Tom Tugendhat - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "The agricultural industry is the glue that binds our rural areas together"

Politics

Tom Tugendhat - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "The agricultural industry is the glue that binds our rural areas together"

Tonbridge MP Tom Tugendhat is one of five candidates in the running to be the next Conservative Party leader

clock 08 September 2024 • 3 min read
Mel Stride - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "I will constantly challenge Labour to ensure that our countryside is not concreted over"

Politics

Mel Stride - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "I will constantly challenge Labour to ensure that our countryside is not concreted over"

The Central Devon MP is now one of five candidates to be the next Conservative Party leader after Priti Patel was knocked out from the first round of the contest

clock 07 September 2024 • 8 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "One such fight saw me physically throw her over a chicken coop"

In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "One such fight saw me physically throw her over a chicken coop"

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 07 September 2024 • 3 min read
From the editor: While politicians gear up for change, farming needs to keep reminding them of its vital role

Politics

From the editor: While politicians gear up for change, farming needs to keep reminding them of its vital role

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

clock 05 September 2024 • 2 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes - "It's only farmers who visit other farms on their day off"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "It's only farmers who visit other farms on their day off"

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 05 September 2024 • 2 min read
Farming Matters: George Parkinson - "Housebuilding – a permanent loss of food production"

Environment

Farming Matters: George Parkinson - "Housebuilding – a permanent loss of food production"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Farmer and former lecturer at Myerscough College - George Parkinson

clock 04 September 2024 • 3 min read
Robert Jenrick - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "I would push for key agricultural land to be protected from being developed as solar farms"

Politics

Robert Jenrick - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "I would push for key agricultural land to be protected from being developed as solar farms"

Mr Jenrick is one of six candidates standing to be the next Conservative Party leader

clock 04 September 2024 • 5 min read
Farm inspections to learn lessons from Ofsted rating review - Rita Poulson: "Language is a powerful tool and words can be very damaging"

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Farm inspections to learn lessons from Ofsted rating review - Rita Poulson: "Language is a powerful tool and words can be very damaging"

The widow of farmer Rocky Poulson, who ended his life four days after a farm inspection, reflects on the similarities between what happened to her husband and the tragic case of headteacher Ruth Perry, who took her own life after Ofsted inspectors said they would downgrade the school from outstanding to the lowest grade - inadequate

clock 03 September 2024 • 3 min read