Opinion and blogs

Roger Evans: "I reckon farming is in for a hard time. The cost of food is too close to inflation"

Roger Evans: "I reckon farming is in for a hard time. The cost of food is too close to inflation"

This month, Roger Evans discusses min-till, visits from the Environment Agency and farmers becoming ‘low-hanging fruit'

Dairy
Dairy Farmer
clock 15 December 2025 • 4 min read
In your field

In your field - Roger Nicholson: "Farmers are not the enemy – they are the people who feed the nation"

clock 14 December 2025 • 3 min read
Arable

Farming Matters - Tim Rooke: "If the UK wants a strong potato sector, we need the tools to do the job properly"

clock 13 December 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Adrian Ramsay: 'It is time to end the cruelty of cages and crates in UK farming"

clock 12 December 2025 • 5 min read
Dairy

NZ Vet's View - Rory Dean: "The relationship between vet and farmer is put to the test when you don't have necessary medicines"

clock 12 December 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - George Freeman: "The real risk posed by the Government's shotgun licensing proposal is not to public safety, but to our rural way of life"

clock 11 December 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Moving in the right direction on livestock worrying legislation

clock 11 December 2025 • 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Stuart Anderson: "In many rural towns and villages, churches are the only buildings in which residents can come together"

Farm Life

EXCLUSIVE - Stuart Anderson: "In many rural towns and villages, churches are the only buildings in which residents can come together"

South Shropshire MP Stuart Anderson writes on the invaluable role of rural churches in farming communities, and why they are currently under threat after the Government slashed annual funding by nearly £20m, in what the Conservatives have dubbed the 'Worship Tax'

clock 09 December 2025 • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Julia Buckley: 'How to measure – and tackle – poverty, in the countryside?'

Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Julia Buckley: 'How to measure – and tackle – poverty, in the countryside?'

Shrewsbury MP Julia Buckley, a founding member of the Labour Rural Research Group, writes on how farming and rural communities can help shape a new report on rural poverty

clock 09 December 2025 • 2 min read
Letters: "Red Tractor will continue to promote and defend the high standards of British agriculture"

Farm Business

Letters: "Red Tractor will continue to promote and defend the high standards of British agriculture"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Richard Cattell, director of marketing and commercial at Red Tractor, highlights the importance of Red Tractor’s food assurance standards at a time when illegal, unregulated meat imports are increasing

clock 09 December 2025 • 2 min read