Opinion and blogs

Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "It does show how easy it would be for a serving season to go badly wrong"

Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "It does show how easy it would be for a serving season to go badly wrong"

Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place, near Edenbridge, Kent

Dairy
Dairy Farmer
clock 24 March 2026 • 3 min read
Animal Health

Letters: "It is not well known that the British Government was no longer in charge of policy on foot-and-mouth in 2001"

clock 24 March 2026 • 1 min read
Farm Life

OPINION: 'Price hikes can feel especially relentless'

clock 23 March 2026 • 2 min read
In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell – "It's definitely brought home to me just how much we rely on our family to get things done on-farm"

clock 23 March 2026 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Emma Robinson – "We are not due to start lambing until March 25, but thanks to a neighbouring farm's ram lamb, we have started sooner. Good job we are not pedigree"

clock 22 March 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Life

EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Cowan - "Behind the tidy Instagram squares, there are 5am alarms, frozen pipes and vet bills that make your stomach drop"

clock 22 March 2026 • 4 min read
Environment

Farming Matters: Phil Hambling – "Public debate overlooks the quiet progress being made on livestock emissions"

clock 21 March 2026 • 3 min read
OPINION: Inheritance Tax consultation could have avoided 18 months of heartache

Politics

OPINION: Inheritance Tax consultation could have avoided 18 months of heartache

Deputy editor Alex Black reflects on this week's High Court case

clock 20 March 2026 • 2 min read
OPINION: "Open the farm gate, muddy the public's trainers and change how they see farming"

Farm Life

OPINION: "Open the farm gate, muddy the public's trainers and change how they see farming"

As LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) encourages farmers to open their gates for Open Farm Sunday on June 7, Farmers Guardian's editorial director Olivia Midgley reflects on the quiet but powerful influence such encounters can have on the public

clock 19 March 2026 • 2 min read
From the editor: England's first Land Use Framework finally unveiled, but what does it mean for farmers?

Politics

From the editor: England's first Land Use Framework finally unveiled, but what does it mean for farmers?

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

clock 19 March 2026 • 2 min read