Opinion and blogs

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

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

Livestock
Katie Fallon
Katie Fallon
clock 14 July 2026 • 1 min read
Farm Business

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

clock 14 July 2026 • 2 min read
Machinery

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

clock 13 July 2026 • 2 min read
Blogs

OPINION: Showing is much more than a busman's holiday

clock 13 July 2026 • 1 min read
Young Farmers and Careers

Opinion: Not inheriting a farm should not stop you farming

clock 13 July 2026 • 2 min read
Farm Life

Nicola Wordie: "I often find that at this stage the ewes become more competition than company"

clock 13 July 2026 • 4 min read
Farm Life

Roger Nicholson: "My aim was always to make sure there was a job available for any family member"

clock 12 July 2026 • 3 min read
Farming Matters: "Are governments listening or have they just learnt to say the right words?"

Politics

Farming Matters: "Are governments listening or have they just learnt to say the right words?"

Rory Hutchings, partner and head of agriculture and estates at HCR Law, discusses the current rhetoric on farming coming from Westminster and the Senedd in Wales.

clock 11 July 2026 • 4 min read
Opinion: AI drive poses another threat to farmland

Environment

Opinion: AI drive poses another threat to farmland

Deputy editor Alex Black takes at the concerns over datacentres

clock 10 July 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: Is prolonged heat at flowering the real risk to future arable rotations?

Blogs

Opinion: Is prolonged heat at flowering the real risk to future arable rotations?

As combines roll around the country cutting barley, many growers are feeling the impacts of the lack of moisture, but how much will this affect future rotations?

clock 09 July 2026 • 2 min read