Opinion and blogs

Opinion: Current beef prices – a tale of two halves

Opinion: Current beef prices – a tale of two halves

Angela Calvert, head of livestock at Farmers Guardian reflects on the changing fortunes of different parts of the beef industry

Blogs
Angela Calvert
Angela Calvert
clock 03 June 2026 • 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Nat Watkins: "I have never regretted my decision to go to uni'

clock 03 June 2026 • 2 min read
Machinery

Opinion: Is the cost of precision farming tech justified?

clock 02 June 2026 • 2 min read
Livestock

Opinion: We are in safe hands with the next generation of auctioneers

clock 02 June 2026 • 1 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "I promised myself last year I would take bolder decisions, and so I hope this year I have the balance right"

clock 02 June 2026 • 3 min read
Environment

Letters: "Reaching for glyphosate out of habit is no more defensible than prescribing penicillin for a sniffle"

clock 02 June 2026 • 1 min read
Young Farmers and Careers

Opinion: What millions of viewers learned about farming on Saturday night

clock 01 June 2026 • 3 min read
Opinion: Farming is who you know not what you know

Shows & Sales

Opinion: Farming is who you know not what you know

Farmers Guardian livestock specialist Ellie Layton on the importance of connections within agriculture and how in one trip to a show a farmer can do six months' worth of business

clock 01 June 2026 • 2 min read
Kate Rowell: "It was a fantastic atmosphere with a roomful of amazing agricultural women"

Farm Life

Kate Rowell: "It was a fantastic atmosphere with a roomful of amazing agricultural women"

Farmers Guardian columnist Kate Rowell on lambing and winning a National Women in Agriculture Award

clock 01 June 2026 • 3 min read
Roger Evans: "I asked whether a cow that urinated on an electric fence would get a shock"

Dairy

Roger Evans: "I asked whether a cow that urinated on an electric fence would get a shock"

clock 31 May 2026 • 4 min read