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Young Farmer Focus - Ben Read: "Knowing I might never be able to go back to farming completely destroyed me"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Ben Read: "Knowing I might never be able to go back to farming completely destroyed me"

Ben Read, 22, is a sheep farmer from Maidstone in Kent

clock 28 December 2023 • 3 min read
Record breakers and sale toppers from 2023

Shows & Sales

Record breakers and sale toppers from 2023

Farmers Guardian looks back a some of the highlights from sale rings around the UK over the year

clock 27 December 2023 • 3 min read
New consortium aims to tackle reliance on soy imports

Arable

New consortium aims to tackle reliance on soy imports

International group wil drive production of soybean, lupin, pea, lentil, bean and clover to address climate and biodiversity crises

clock 27 December 2023 • 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Leighton Snelgrove: "Farming is an arduous task where you have to be a bookkeeper, a vet, a midwife, an agronomist and so much more"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Leighton Snelgrove: "Farming is an arduous task where you have to be a bookkeeper, a vet, a midwife, an agronomist and so much more"

Leighton Snelgrove, 24, is a beef and sheep farmer from Nutley in Sussex.

clock 27 December 2023 • 3 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Calum Smith: "I wake up every morning to make them proud of me"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Calum Smith: "I wake up every morning to make them proud of me"

Calum Smith, 28, from Grantown-on-Spey in Moray is a beef farmer

clock 26 December 2023 • 3 min read
Early disease suppression opportunity for potato seed

Arable

Early disease suppression opportunity for potato seed

Seed potato producers are urged to treat disease-susceptible stocks with a fungicide during the first grading window

clock 26 December 2023 • 2 min read
Farmers Guardian podcast: Adam Henson talks about rural mental health and his new 'Keeping on Track' podcast

Podcasts

Farmers Guardian podcast: Adam Henson talks about rural mental health and his new 'Keeping on Track' podcast

Farmer and presenter Adam Henson launches new rural mental health podcast to connect with farmers, but also the wider public to ensure more people better understand farming and the pressures involved

clock 26 December 2023 • 2 min read
NFU Mutual's 'longest' customer celebrates 75th milestone

Farm Life

NFU Mutual's 'longest' customer celebrates 75th milestone

Len Crabb, 92, has held an insurance policy with NFUM since 1947

clock 25 December 2023 • 1 min read
Gang to spend Christmas behind bars after stealing almost £1m in farm machinery

Rural crime

Gang to spend Christmas behind bars after stealing almost £1m in farm machinery

Lincolnshire Police said the gang had targeted rural communities across the East Midlands, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire

clock 24 December 2023 • 4 min read
Hybu Cig Cymru puts Welsh beef farmers at centre of new campaign

Livestock

Hybu Cig Cymru puts Welsh beef farmers at centre of new campaign

Hybu Cig Cymru's new Welsh beef campaign will feature in a series of advertising in the run up to Christmas across digital, radio and TV

clock 24 December 2023 • 3 min read