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View from the rostrum: Richard Hyde - Cruel blow to family farms

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View from the rostrum: Richard Hyde - Cruel blow to family farms

Richard Hyde on family farm tax and 2024 trade

clock 08 January 2025 • 3 min read
Emma Mosey - chair of the Farm Retail Association: "We [farmers] need to become storytellers, sharing the passion and dedication that goes into producing our food"

Farm Business

Emma Mosey - chair of the Farm Retail Association: "We [farmers] need to become storytellers, sharing the passion and dedication that goes into producing our food"

Ms Mosey recently spoke at the Transforming UK Food Systems Conference (TUKFSC) and writes for Farmers Guardian about the realities of modern farming, a health crisis from ultra-processed foods, the rural and urban divide, Inheritance Tax, production costs in farming and much more

clock 08 January 2025 • 3 min read
John Swinney - Scotland's First Minister on the Scottish Budget: "If we are going to recover and renew as a nation, then we have to come together as a nation"

Politics

John Swinney - Scotland's First Minister on the Scottish Budget: "If we are going to recover and renew as a nation, then we have to come together as a nation"

The Scottish First Minister has outlined why the SNP's Budget should be passed next month by MSPs

clock 07 January 2025 • 15 min read
Jeremy Moody - Central Association for Agricultural Valuers on the family farm tax: "Do farmers move to owning less land and having more on tenancy and other arrangements?"

Farm Business

Jeremy Moody - Central Association for Agricultural Valuers on the family farm tax: "Do farmers move to owning less land and having more on tenancy and other arrangements?"

"For English farming, Autumn 2024 saw, without warning, a precipitate acceleration of the phased agricultural transition, started for 2021, with the near removal of delinked payments for 2025 and the suspension of capital grants with an explanation only after the event"

clock 06 January 2025 • 4 min read
Tim Eagle - Shadow Rural Affairs Secretary: "Our farmers and crofters keep the supermarket shelves filled, they act as custodians of our beautiful countryside, and are the backbone of our rural communities"

Politics

Tim Eagle - Shadow Rural Affairs Secretary: "Our farmers and crofters keep the supermarket shelves filled, they act as custodians of our beautiful countryside, and are the backbone of our rural communities"

A New Year's message to farmers and crofters from Scotland's Shadow Rural Affairs Secretary Tim Eagle

clock 06 January 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Tom Kirk: "Lucy was such a special person"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Tom Kirk: "Lucy was such a special person"

Tom writes about how the farming community in Cumbria came together last month to remember his sister Lucy who died from cancer

clock 05 January 2025 • 2 min read
NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy on the family farm tax: "The UK Government is completely missing the target"

Farm Business

NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy on the family farm tax: "The UK Government is completely missing the target"

"Not only is this figure wrong as it was based on a snapshot of 2021 data and values have now considerably changed, but it is also disingenuous on the UK Government to say only 500 (farms) are affected"

clock 04 January 2025 • 5 min read
Michael Miller- Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner: What Politicians are Missing

Farm Life

Michael Miller- Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner: What Politicians are Missing

Michael Miller specialises in Agriculture, Farms and Estates Partner at law firm Spencer West LLP

clock 03 January 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
OPINION: It may be difficult for farming to look ahead this New Year, but focus on what you can control

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OPINION: It may be difficult for farming to look ahead this New Year, but focus on what you can control

Farmers Guardian's online editor Emily Ashworth reflects on the last few months but urges the industry to remember the value of what farming does

clock 01 January 2025 • 2 min read