Blogs

In your field: Emma Robinson - "Educating children on how their food is produced and where it comes from is essential for our industry to thrive"

In your field

In your field: Emma Robinson - "Educating children on how their food is produced and where it comes from is essential for our industry to thrive"

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 15 April 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Roger Nicholson - "There comes a time when those in power need to listen and give our industry the respect it deserves"

In your field

In your field: Roger Nicholson - "There comes a time when those in power need to listen and give our industry the respect it deserves"

Roger Nicholson farms with his family at the heavily diversified Cannon Hall Farm, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, which has sparked various Channel 5 series including 'Springtime on the Farm'. Roger, 81, farms with his sons Dave and Robert and says he has no plans to retire just yet

clock 14 April 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - "As ever at this time of year, the outside world has faded into the background and our lives are lived almost entirely in the lambing shed"

In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "As ever at this time of year, the outside world has faded into the background and our lives are lived almost entirely in the lambing shed"

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 April 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "I have had to construct H.M. suckler prison with sheep netting across the head rails of the pen to prevent future escapades"

In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "I have had to construct H.M. suckler prison with sheep netting across the head rails of the pen to prevent future escapades"

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 06 April 2025 • 2 min read
OPINION: Health adverts should focus on ultra-processed foods, not demonising dairy

Blogs

OPINION: Health adverts should focus on ultra-processed foods, not demonising dairy

Online editor Emily Ashworth questions the impact a new anti-dairy advert shown in cinemas and mainstream TV channels could have on the nation's health - and the environment

clock 04 April 2025 • 1 min read
From the editor: It's an important time for farming - and for FG too

Blogs

From the editor: It's an important time for farming - and for FG too

This week Farmers Guardian sees former editor Olivia Midgley take on a new role as editorial director, passing the baton to former livestock editor Katie Jones

clock 03 April 2025 • 1 min read
Young Dog Handler Focus - Iwan Rees: "I am a member of trial associations and have found its a great community to be part of"

Blogs

Young Dog Handler Focus - Iwan Rees: "I am a member of trial associations and have found its a great community to be part of"

In this new series, we focus on emerging working dog handlers who are heading up the industry. We will explore their successes, trials and tribulations in the journey as they become the next generation of skilled sheepdog handlers

clock 03 April 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes – "Everything has started to grow, the ground has finally dried out... Long may the sun continue"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes – "Everything has started to grow, the ground has finally dried out... Long may the sun continue"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent

clock 31 March 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: Alan Carter – "When you have been in a parlour since the pushchair, you can take all this for granted"

In your field

In your field: Alan Carter – "When you have been in a parlour since the pushchair, you can take all this for granted"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162-hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, supplying Saputo

clock 31 March 2025 • 3 min read
OPINION: "Is the Land Use Framework another threat to the viability of English farms?"

Politics

OPINION: "Is the Land Use Framework another threat to the viability of English farms?"

Laura Greenman, of HCR Law, said: "While the Framework focuses on planning, energy and infrastructure, little consideration has been given to food security"

clock 29 March 2025 • 2 min read