Opinion and blogs

Young Farmer Focus: Jack Ancell - 'I was farming at every opportunity'

Young Farmer Focus: Jack Ancell - 'I was farming at every opportunity'

Jack Ancell, aged 23 and from Cheshire, studied Agri-Business at Harper Adams University and is about to embark on starting his own suckler beef farm on a local estate

Young Farmer Focus
Farmers Guardian
clock 25 June 2026 • 2 min read
Blogs

OPINION: Does Sir Keir's early exit scupper Defra's long-term farming vision?

clock 25 June 2026 • 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: Can we move on from a decade of political drift?

clock 25 June 2026 • 2 min read
Education

OPINION: "It was concerning to see the gap between public perceptions of farming and the realities of modern food production"

clock 24 June 2026 • 2 min read
Shows & Sales

OPINION: Time flies when you are having fun

clock 24 June 2026 • 1 min read
Machinery

Opinion: French farmers speak the same language as us

clock 23 June 2026 • 2 min read
Livestock

Opinion: Cancelling livestock sales amid heatwave is just another example of our industry doing what it does best

clock 23 June 2026 • 1 min read
Letters: "Good, wholesome food, locally produced, has to be encouraged"

Farm Life

Letters: "Good, wholesome food, locally produced, has to be encouraged"

Farmers Guardian reader John Hart emailed in to add his recollections of the decline in dairy production on the Isle of Wight

clock 23 June 2026 • 1 min read
Opinion: "The Inheritance Tax battle is not over yet"

Young Farmers and Careers

Opinion: "The Inheritance Tax battle is not over yet"

Writing from his family's farm in Cumbria, Farmers Guardian online content specialist Tom Ryder explains why confidence in the future of farming feels stronger than it has for some time

clock 22 June 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: Clare Wise – "Another PM with no rural leaning is hardly going to set farming hearts and minds alight with hope"

Blogs

Opinion: Clare Wise – "Another PM with no rural leaning is hardly going to set farming hearts and minds alight with hope"

Following Keir Starmer's resignation, County Durham livestock farmer Clare Wise says the next Prime Minister must either listen, or get out of the way to ensure farmers can do their job

clock 22 June 2026 • 3 min read