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Letters: Red Tractor interim chair apologises for auction mart remark

Blogs

Letters: Red Tractor interim chair apologises for auction mart remark

This week's letter from Red Tractor's Interim Chair Alistair Mackintosh

clock 17 July 2024 • 1 min read
Letters: Organic farming needs to up its game

Farm Business

Letters: Organic farming needs to up its game

This week's letters from Farmers Guardian readers

clock 17 July 2024 • 2 min read
Sarah Spencer, land manager at Balance Power: "How farmers can win from Labour's net zero vision"

Blogs

Sarah Spencer, land manager at Balance Power: "How farmers can win from Labour's net zero vision"

clock 16 July 2024 • 5 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Alice Bothwell: "I have been exposed to a vast range of different practices allowing me to make my own decisions for my own flock"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Alice Bothwell: "I have been exposed to a vast range of different practices allowing me to make my own decisions for my own flock"

Alice Bothwell, 20, from Stamford in Lincolnshire, is an agricultural student at Harper Adams University

clock 15 July 2024 • 2 min read
Letters: Red Tractor interim chair 'does not get it'

Farm Business

Letters: Red Tractor interim chair 'does not get it'

This week's letters from Farmers Guardian readers

clock 15 July 2024 • 1 min read
In your field: Helen Stanier - 'At this point they decided that their midnight snacking wasn't over'

In your field

In your field: Helen Stanier - 'At this point they decided that their midnight snacking wasn't over'

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

clock 12 July 2024 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk - Ben Yates: "It has been a welcome relief to have received several milk price increases through the spring"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Ben Yates: "It has been a welcome relief to have received several milk price increases through the spring"

At long last we are enjoying some warm, dry weather here in Somerset. We have been lucky enough to grab some weather windows to do our first and second cuts on our Italian lays, and our first cut on everything else

clock 12 July 2024 • 3 min read
Roger Evans: "You could tell the financial state of dairy farming just by looking at these scraper tractors"

Dairy

Roger Evans: "You could tell the financial state of dairy farming just by looking at these scraper tractors"

This month Roger Evans talks about some of the latest agricultural technology and also discusses an icon of the dairy farming world; the scraper tractor

clock 12 July 2024 • 4 min read
Dairy Matters: Phil Latham - "The heckling is over, it's time to deliver the promised change"

Dairy

Dairy Matters: Phil Latham - "The heckling is over, it's time to deliver the promised change"

The 83 words mentioned in the Labour manifesto aren't enough for us to understand the detail of their policies

clock 12 July 2024 • 4 min read
From the editor: By joining the dots between food security, public investment and the national growth agenda the sector will gain confidence and thrive

Politics

From the editor: By joining the dots between food security, public investment and the national growth agenda the sector will gain confidence and thrive

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

clock 11 July 2024 • 3 min read