Opinion and blogs

Farming matters: Harry Bowell - "Hill farmers are ideally placed to deliver gains for nature and deserve to be rewarded"

Farming matters: Harry Bowell - "Hill farmers are ideally placed to deliver gains for nature and deserve to be rewarded"

Harry Bowell is Director of Land and Nature at the National Trust

Farm Life
Farmers Guardian
clock 11 January 2025 • 3 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Robert Reed: "I hope 2025 is the year that our Government realises that they need a farmer every single day to live and eat"

clock 11 January 2025 • 4 min read
Farm Life

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "UK teams develop the technology, it is a great British agri-tech export story"

clock 10 January 2025 • 2 min read
Blogs

OPINION: "It is vital that milk prices do remain firm throughout 2025 and beyond"

clock 10 January 2025 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: "Should the Government continue to dig in its heels, the calls from businesses across the food and farming supply chain will only get louder"

clock 09 January 2025 • 2 min read
Farm Business

Geoff Sansome - Oxford Farming Conference chair: "UK farming now faces a complex array of changes"

clock 08 January 2025 • 4 min read
Shows & Sales

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

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