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OPINION: "What do these backbencher Labour MPs know now that they did not know weeks ago?"

Politics

OPINION: "What do these backbencher Labour MPs know now that they did not know weeks ago?"

This week from Rachael Brown, Farmers Guardian chief reporter

clock 13 February 2025 • 1 min read
Letters: 'Farmers must not be scared of meeting misinformation head on'

Blogs

Letters: 'Farmers must not be scared of meeting misinformation head on'

Farmer-turned-author, Eryl Jones, reflects on what the agrifood industry can learn from history about misinformation and deception

clock 12 February 2025 • 5 min read
Letters: "The sooner farming learns to financially survive on its own two feet, the better"

Farm Business

Letters: "The sooner farming learns to financially survive on its own two feet, the better"

Gwynfor Davies, via email, on farmers becoming dependent on Government support

clock 12 February 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Amelia Greenway: "Our aim is to improve the conservation of rare breeds"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Amelia Greenway: "Our aim is to improve the conservation of rare breeds"

Amelia Greenway, 24, is a first-generation tenant farmer from Exeter in Devon. She writes about her passion to improve the conservation of rare breeds and why she is proud to support the Nature Friendly Farming Network

clock 12 February 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: Helen Stanier – "My heart goes out to those losing good cows through bovine TB"

In your field

In your field: Helen Stanier – "My heart goes out to those losing good cows through bovine TB"

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her family at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162ha (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for their 240 pedigree Jersey cows plus followers

clock 11 February 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: James Robinson – "We all have a voice when it comes to disease control or how our farmland is managed"

In your field

In your field: James Robinson – "We all have a voice when it comes to disease control or how our farmland is managed"

James farms Dairy Shorthorns east of Kendal, Cumbria. The fifth generation to farm at Strickley, he is also vice-chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network

clock 11 February 2025 • 3 min read
Letters: "Agriculture is the ultimate carbon recycling industry"

Climate Change

Letters: "Agriculture is the ultimate carbon recycling industry"

Jess Bostock, from Staffordshire, on carbon recycling and methane production

clock 11 February 2025 • 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Bronagh Dempster: "I could not imagine a life without farming"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Bronagh Dempster: "I could not imagine a life without farming"

Nuffield Farming Next Generation scholar Bronagh Dempster, 24, writes about her experiences of the scheme and why young people should choose a career in farming

clock 10 February 2025 • 2 min read
David Exwood: 'Farming is tough, but no one should struggle alone'

Blogs

David Exwood: 'Farming is tough, but no one should struggle alone'

NFU deputy president urges farmers to consider their mental well-being as part of Yellow Wellies' Mind Your Head campaign

clock 10 February 2025 • 3 min read
Farming Matters: Amy Jackson – "Novel technologies offer solutions we need... but what if that tech is unacceptable to consumers?"

Environment

Farming Matters: Amy Jackson – "Novel technologies offer solutions we need... but what if that tech is unacceptable to consumers?"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Amy Jackson, communications specialist in farming issues and crises

clock 08 February 2025 • 3 min read