Opinion and blogs

Opinion: "Time away from the farm doesn't need to be time away from the industry"

Opinion: "Time away from the farm doesn't need to be time away from the industry"

Farmers Guardian livestock specialist Ellie Layton on the value of taking time off from farming in whatever form it takes

Livestock
Ellie Layton
Ellie Layton
clock 08 June 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Life

Roger Nicholson: "Let's rebuild nature from the bottom and look after the birds and animals we already have"

clock 08 June 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Life

Nicola Wordie: "I have been particularly pleased with how the calves have wintered"

clock 07 June 2026 • 3 min read
Blogs

OPINION: Government needs and wants to hear your views

clock 07 June 2026 • 3 min read
Farm Business

Farming Matters – Clemmie Gleeson: "Leadership starts with values and the confidence to stand by what you believe"

clock 06 June 2026 • 3 min read
Arable

Ban on glyphosate: For or against? Two farmers go head to head in The Big Farm Debate

clock 05 June 2026 • 4 min read
Politics

Opinion: SFI update leaves plenty of questions unanswered

clock 05 June 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: Glyphosate – an essential tool or a growing concern?

Blogs

Opinion: Glyphosate – an essential tool or a growing concern?

With renewed interest in the health risks asocciated with glyphosate, Ash Ellwood ponders what is fact and what are merely 'claims'

clock 04 June 2026 • 2 min read
McDonald's Progressive Young Farmer: Abbi Hallett - Coming from a non-farming background, this placement has completely changed my understanding of food production

Young Farmers and Careers

McDonald's Progressive Young Farmer: Abbi Hallett - Coming from a non-farming background, this placement has completely changed my understanding of food production

As part of an exclusive 12-month blog for Farmers Guardian, the new cohort of youngsters on the McDonald's Progressive Young Farmer (PYF) programme talk about their hopes for the future and the impact they can make. This month we hear from 20 year-old Abbi Hallett from Yorkshire

clock 04 June 2026 • 5 min read
Opinion: What will Jeremy Clarkson's meat-free diet mean for our farmers?

Blogs

Opinion: What will Jeremy Clarkson's meat-free diet mean for our farmers?

Clarkson's Farm and the climate crisis both put a reduction in meat and dairy on the news agenda this week

clock 04 June 2026 • 3 min read