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Young Farmer Focus - Niamh McEwan-Wright: "I feel at home on the farm - and my skills continue to grow"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Niamh McEwan-Wright: "I feel at home on the farm - and my skills continue to grow"

Niamh McEwan-Wright, 16, is studying a T Level land-based agricultural course at Bishop Burton College in East Yorkshire. She lives near York, North Yorkshire

clock 15 July 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: We are all sitting smug with how much grass is in the clamp

Livestock

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

clock 14 July 2026 • 1 min read
Letters: "I have never received a penny of support specifically for my native breed cattle, sheep and hill ponies"

Farm Business

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

Farmers Guardian reader Sam Sykes, from Sheffield, responds to Christopher Price's recent Farming Matters column on funding to preserve rare breeds

clock 14 July 2026 • 2 min read
Opinion: Cleaner machinery is good – but who pays the bill?

Machinery

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

clock 13 July 2026 • 2 min read
OPINION: Showing is much more than a busman's holiday

Blogs

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

clock 13 July 2026 • 1 min read
Opinion: Not inheriting a farm should not stop you farming

Young Farmers and Careers

Opinion: Not inheriting a farm should not stop you farming

Writing from his family's farm in Cumbria, Farmers Guardian online content specialist Tom Ryder reflects on why Will Riddington and Katie Andrews' story proves there is more than one way into farming

clock 13 July 2026 • 2 min read
Nicola Wordie: "I often find that at this stage the ewes become more competition than company"

Farm Life

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

Aberdeenshire livestock farmer Nicola Wordie, known as @livestock_farmher on social media, shares what she and her dad have been up to on the farm this month

clock 13 July 2026 • 4 min read
Roger Nicholson: "My aim was always to make sure there was a job available for any family member"

Farm Life

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

Roger Nicholson of Cannon Hall Farm discusses diversification, farm safety, breeding and his beloved Shire horses

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