Climate Change

The recent Rootstock conference, held in Devon, looked at how farmers could build sustainable, profitable businesses in tune with natural processes

Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley sat down with Jack Bobo, director of the University of Nottingham's Food Systems Institute, ahead of the NFU Conference 2024

In spite of unpredictable weather, farmers just have to get on with it, as do John and Sarah Yeomans, whose annual rainfall has nearly doubled since 2010. Gaina Morgan reports

Dairy farmers will have to learn to live in a more challenging climate because changes are already affecting many aspects of their operations, said Hayley Campbell-Gibbons of Kite Consulting

Researchers say crops and profits can be boosted by the system

Aboveall, what we need in 2024 is a kind spring. At our farm, we decided to use the good weather post-harvest to deal with widespread compaction issues

Tailored events will discuss technical topics and future farm planning

Blwydden Newydd dda (Happy New Year) to you all. Last year was not the best to be honest, but I have a feeling that 2024 is going to be a good one

Louise Venables, Exmouth town councillor, said switching to an increasingly plant-based diet could ‘improve health, remedy biodiversity, improve animal welfare and be financially beneficial'

Professor Julia Aglionby said pitching farming for food as the destroyer of nature was 'disingenuous, lazy and damaging'