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Opinion: Is the cost of precision farming tech justified?

Machinery

Opinion: Is the cost of precision farming tech justified?

FG head of machinery and farm technology Toby Whatley reflects on his adventures with an autonomous domestic lawnmower

clock 02 June 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: We are in safe hands with the next generation of auctioneers

Livestock

Opinion: We are in safe hands with the next generation of auctioneers

Livestock specialist Katie Fallon, reflects on the role of auction marts and a bright future for auctioneering

clock 02 June 2026 • 1 min read
Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "I promised myself last year I would take bolder decisions, and so I hope this year I have the balance right"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Dan Burdett: "I promised myself last year I would take bolder decisions, and so I hope this year I have the balance right"

Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses

clock 02 June 2026 • 3 min read
Letters: "Reaching for glyphosate out of habit is no more defensible than prescribing penicillin for a sniffle"

Environment

Letters: "Reaching for glyphosate out of habit is no more defensible than prescribing penicillin for a sniffle"

Farmers Guardian reader Gillon Dobie, from Berwickshire, adds to the ongoing debate on glyphosate usage

clock 02 June 2026 • 1 min read
Opinion: What millions of viewers learned about farming on Saturday night

Young Farmers and Careers

Opinion: What millions of viewers learned about farming on Saturday night

Writing from his family's farm in Cumbria, Farmers Guardian's Tom Ryder discusses why the Hawkstone Farmers' Choir's Britain's Got Talent victory means far more to British agriculture than winning a TV competition

clock 01 June 2026 • 3 min read
Opinion: Farming is who you know not what you know

Shows & Sales

Opinion: Farming is who you know not what you know

Farmers Guardian livestock specialist Ellie Layton on the importance of connections within agriculture and how in one trip to a show a farmer can do six months' worth of business

clock 01 June 2026 • 2 min read
Kate Rowell: "It was a fantastic atmosphere with a roomful of amazing agricultural women"

Farm Life

Kate Rowell: "It was a fantastic atmosphere with a roomful of amazing agricultural women"

Farmers Guardian columnist Kate Rowell on lambing and winning a National Women in Agriculture Award

clock 01 June 2026 • 3 min read
Roger Evans: "I asked whether a cow that urinated on an electric fence would get a shock"

Dairy

Roger Evans: "I asked whether a cow that urinated on an electric fence would get a shock"

clock 31 May 2026 • 4 min read
Emma Robinson: "We decided to tick the Basic Payment Scheme box this year"

Farm Life

Emma Robinson: "We decided to tick the Basic Payment Scheme box this year"

Farmers Guardian columnist Emma Robinson on farm inspections, funding, weather implications and a new Welsh Government

clock 31 May 2026 • 3 min read
Dr Dolly van Tulleken: "We have ended up in a nonsensical food system, with small-scale abattoirs and farms closing at an alarming rate"

Livestock

Dr Dolly van Tulleken: "We have ended up in a nonsensical food system, with small-scale abattoirs and farms closing at an alarming rate"

Food and public health campaigner Dr Dolly van Tulleken on how abattoir loss is driving out small-scale meat production, and the resulting impact on food quality, biodiversity, animal welfare, supply chains and local economies

clock 30 May 2026 • 3 min read