Opinion and blogs

Letters: "How did we humans survive for so long on milk, meat and two veg?"

Letters: "How did we humans survive for so long on milk, meat and two veg?"

FG reader Richard Bruce, from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, responds to Dr Dolly van Tulleken's Farming Matters column on the closure of small-scale abattoirs and farms

Farm Business
Farmers Guardian
clock 09 June 2026 • 1 min read
Young Farmers and Careers

Opinion: What Jeff and Katie Aiken reminded me about farming

clock 08 June 2026 • 3 min read
Livestock

Opinion: "Time away from the farm doesn't need to be time away from the industry"

clock 08 June 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Life

Roger Nicholson: "Let's rebuild nature from the bottom and look after the birds and animals we already have"

clock 08 June 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Life

Nicola Wordie: "I have been particularly pleased with how the calves have wintered"

clock 07 June 2026 • 3 min read
Blogs

OPINION: Government needs and wants to hear your views

clock 07 June 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Business

Farming Matters – Clemmie Gleeson: "Leadership starts with values and the confidence to stand by what you believe"

clock 06 June 2026 • 3 min read
Ban on glyphosate: For or against? Two farmers go head to head in The Big Farm Debate

Arable

Ban on glyphosate: For or against? Two farmers go head to head in The Big Farm Debate

The use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest desiccant has become an increasingly contentious subject both inside and outside farming. We asked two industry figures to put the case for and against a potential ban

clock 05 June 2026 • 4 min read
Opinion: SFI update leaves plenty of questions unanswered

Politics

Opinion: SFI update leaves plenty of questions unanswered

The first application window for the Sustainable Farming Incentive opens for farmers in England at the end of the month

clock 05 June 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: Glyphosate – an essential tool or a growing concern?

Blogs

Opinion: Glyphosate – an essential tool or a growing concern?

With renewed interest in the health risks asocciated with glyphosate, Ash Ellwood ponders what is fact and what are merely 'claims'

clock 04 June 2026 • 2 min read