Opinion and blogs

Opinion: Agriculture is still an industry where neighbours lend machinery, friends answer the phone without hesitation, and families rearrange their day because someone needs a hand

Opinion: Agriculture is still an industry where neighbours lend machinery, friends answer the phone without hesitation, and families rearrange their day because someone needs a hand

Surprising lesson that FG head of arable Ash Ellwood learns while awaiting breakdown recovery from North Yorkshire

Blogs
Ashleigh Ellwood
Ashleigh Ellwood
clock 16 July 2026 • 2 min read
Pig

Opinion: Support is needed as pig crisis continues

clock 16 July 2026 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: Fire risk demands a rethink on land management

clock 16 July 2026 • 2 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk: Robert Reed - "We haven't been this long bTB-free for nearly 15 years"

clock 16 July 2026 • 4 min read
Shows & Sales

OPINION: There is nowhere quite like the Great Yorkshire Show

clock 15 July 2026 • 1 min read
Blogs

Laura Anne Jones MS: "Decisions on bovine TB in Wales should be driven by evidence, not ideology"

clock 15 July 2026 • 3 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Niamh McEwan-Wright: "I feel at home on the farm - and my skills continue to grow"

clock 15 July 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: We are all sitting smug with how much grass is in the clamp

Livestock

Opinion: We are all sitting smug with how much grass is in the clamp

Livestock specialist Katie Fallon talks of good grass crops and the recent warm weather

clock 14 July 2026 • 1 min read
Letters: "I have never received a penny of support specifically for my native breed cattle, sheep and hill ponies"

Farm Business

Letters: "I have never received a penny of support specifically for my native breed cattle, sheep and hill ponies"

Farmers Guardian reader Sam Sykes, from Sheffield, responds to Christopher Price's recent Farming Matters column on funding to preserve rare breeds

clock 14 July 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: Cleaner machinery is good – but who pays the bill?

Machinery

Opinion: Cleaner machinery is good – but who pays the bill?

clock 13 July 2026 • 2 min read