Opinion and blogs

Land use Framework: Calum Gillhespy - "Land use Framework is horrendously convoluted, inefficient and a missed opportunity"

Land use Framework: Calum Gillhespy - "Land use Framework is horrendously convoluted, inefficient and a missed opportunity"

Calum Gillhespy, head of planning and development at GSC Grays says the Framework is in many ways very good, yet intrinsically, undeliverable and when you step back and look at how they plan to achieve their aims, it seems horrendously convoluted and inefficient

Blogs
Farmers Guardian
clock 29 March 2026 • 3 min read
Politics

Farming Matters: John McArthur – "This is not livestock versus plant protein – it is about British farmers producing more of the food this country depends on"

clock 28 March 2026 • 3 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Becky Fenton: "I like to tell my non-farming friends that the cows will have a foot spa, hairdressers, Fitbits, disco lights and that you will be able to see us from space"

clock 28 March 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Life

OPINION: "The nation really does love its farmers"

clock 27 March 2026 • 1 min read
Farm Business

Road to regen: Silas Hedley-Lawrence: "Farmers thrive off of connecting with other farmers, even if they hold different perspectives"

clock 27 March 2026 • 3 min read
Rural crime

OPINION: "Highly organised criminals continue to profit from the misery of hardworking farming families"

clock 26 March 2026 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: Recognising the role of farming as part of our national security

clock 26 March 2026 • 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus – Sarah Tobin: "After leaving the dairy, I focused on my love for sheep"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus – Sarah Tobin: "After leaving the dairy, I focused on my love for sheep"

Sheep farmer Sarah Tobin writes on her journey to becoming a next generation ambassador for the NSA

clock 25 March 2026 • 4 min read
Rural education matters: Olivia Shave - "There is a genuine appetite to reconnect young people with the land"

Education

Rural education matters: Olivia Shave - "There is a genuine appetite to reconnect young people with the land"

Olivia Shave is the founder of farming education campaign Soil Ed, which aims to get sustainability, farming and food onto the national curriculum. Over the last two years, the campaign has gained cross-party support and multiple high-profile ambassadors

clock 24 March 2026 • 1 min read
Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "It does show how easy it would be for a serving season to go badly wrong"

Dairy

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

clock 24 March 2026 • 3 min read