Opinion and blogs

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

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

Police forces from across the country attended the National Rural Crime Network's Annual Conference this week. Can an industry-wide effort stop what can be a never ending bad dream for farmers?

Rural crime
Chris Brayford
Chris Brayford
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

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

clock 25 March 2026 • 4 min read
Education

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

clock 24 March 2026 • 1 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "It does show how easy it would be for a serving season to go badly wrong"

clock 24 March 2026 • 3 min read
Animal Health

Letters: "It is not well known that the British Government was no longer in charge of policy on foot-and-mouth in 2001"

clock 24 March 2026 • 1 min read
Farm Life

OPINION: 'Price hikes can feel especially relentless'

clock 23 March 2026 • 2 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell – "It's definitely brought home to me just how much we rely on our family to get things done on-farm"

In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell – "It's definitely brought home to me just how much we rely on our family to get things done on-farm"

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

clock 23 March 2026 • 3 min read
In your field: Emma Robinson – "We are not due to start lambing until March 25, but thanks to a neighbouring farm's ram lamb, we have started sooner. Good job we are not pedigree"

In your field

In your field: Emma Robinson – "We are not due to start lambing until March 25, but thanks to a neighbouring farm's ram lamb, we have started sooner. Good job we are not pedigree"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) and is chair of RABI Monmouthshire

clock 22 March 2026 • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Cowan - "Behind the tidy Instagram squares, there are 5am alarms, frozen pipes and vet bills that make your stomach drop"

Farm Life

EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Cowan - "Behind the tidy Instagram squares, there are 5am alarms, frozen pipes and vet bills that make your stomach drop"

In the last of a three-month exclusive column for Farmers Guardian, Clarkson's Farm star Harriet Cowan talks about coming full-circle back to farming and how the industry is part of who she is

clock 22 March 2026 • 4 min read