Opinion and blogs

In your field - Roger Nicholson: "Farmers are not the enemy – they are the people who feed the nation"

In your field - Roger Nicholson: "Farmers are not the enemy – they are the people who feed the nation"

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 Richard, Robert and David and says he has no plans to retire just yet

In your field
Roger Nicholson
Roger Nicholson
clock 14 December 2025 • 3 min read
Arable

Farming Matters - Tim Rooke: "If the UK wants a strong potato sector, we need the tools to do the job properly"

clock 13 December 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Adrian Ramsay: 'It is time to end the cruelty of cages and crates in UK farming"

clock 12 December 2025 • 5 min read
Dairy

NZ Vet's View - Rory Dean: "The relationship between vet and farmer is put to the test when you don't have necessary medicines"

clock 12 December 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - George Freeman: "The real risk posed by the Government's shotgun licensing proposal is not to public safety, but to our rural way of life"

clock 11 December 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Moving in the right direction on livestock worrying legislation

clock 11 December 2025 • 2 min read
Farm Life

EXCLUSIVE - Stuart Anderson: "In many rural towns and villages, churches are the only buildings in which residents can come together"

clock 09 December 2025 • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Julia Buckley: 'How to measure – and tackle – poverty, in the countryside?'

Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Julia Buckley: 'How to measure – and tackle – poverty, in the countryside?'

Shrewsbury MP Julia Buckley, a founding member of the Labour Rural Research Group, writes on how farming and rural communities can help shape a new report on rural poverty

clock 09 December 2025 • 2 min read
Letters: "Red Tractor will continue to promote and defend the high standards of British agriculture"

Farm Business

Letters: "Red Tractor will continue to promote and defend the high standards of British agriculture"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Richard Cattell, director of marketing and commercial at Red Tractor, highlights the importance of Red Tractor’s food assurance standards at a time when illegal, unregulated meat imports are increasing

clock 09 December 2025 • 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Ann Davies: "As we gather around the table this Christmas, let's remember the story behind the plate"

Farm Business

EXCLUSIVE - Ann Davies: "As we gather around the table this Christmas, let's remember the story behind the plate"

Plaid Cymru MP Ann Daives writes on why buying from family farms, butchers and farm shops matters more than ever this Christmas

clock 08 December 2025 • 3 min read