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Driving farm productivity and efficiency through oxyfertigation and carbon dioxide irrigation

Arable

Driving farm productivity and efficiency through oxyfertigation and carbon dioxide irrigation

Sonia Guri, lead agricultural engineer at Air Products discusses two new technologies geared towards sustainable food production

clock 05 June 2025 • 3 min read
Emma Gray's Farming Life: Asda's Uruguayan beef scandal made us wonder if we could sell our own meat

Farm Life

Emma Gray's Farming Life: Asda's Uruguayan beef scandal made us wonder if we could sell our own meat

After receiving questions on social media about Asda selling beef from South America, Emma Gray questions the system: why is it easier from meat from abroad to hit the shelves, rather than her own?

clock 05 June 2025 • 2 min read
Rural Education Matters – Olivia Shave: "I am here to disrupt, to call out the powers that be, and to fight for the future of British food and farming"

Education

Rural Education Matters – Olivia Shave: "I am here to disrupt, to call out the powers that be, and to fight for the future of British food and farming"

Rural education campaigner Olivia Shave writes about how farmers are being sidelined in the debate around a ban on junk food advertising

clock 04 June 2025 • 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Jacob Bayliss: "I owe a great deal to Kaleb Cooper for inspiring me"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Jacob Bayliss: "I owe a great deal to Kaleb Cooper for inspiring me"

Royal Agricultural University student Jacob Bayliss discusses why he chose to study agriculture, the influence of Kaleb Cooper and Clarkson's Farm on his decision, and his hopes for the future

clock 04 June 2025 • 3 min read
Alan Brown: "The serious decline of our domestic beef sector is nothing less than a disgrace"

Politics

Alan Brown: "The serious decline of our domestic beef sector is nothing less than a disgrace"

Scottish Association of Meat Wholesaler's president Alan Brown discusses declining beef numbers in Scotland which he said has been exacerbated by Government policy inaction and policy failure

clock 03 June 2025 • 3 min read
Letters: "Programmes like Springwatch often fail in their duty to educate and inform of the full picture [on badgers]"

Environment

Letters: "Programmes like Springwatch often fail in their duty to educate and inform of the full picture [on badgers]"

Elizabeth Heaton, from Leyburn, North Yorkshire, writes to express her dismay at the portrayal of the UK's badger population in the BBC's latest series of Springwatch

clock 03 June 2025 • 1 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "Defra has been consigned to irrelevance by Labour"

Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "Defra has been consigned to irrelevance by Labour"

Conservative MP Aphra Brandreth discusses how Chancellor Rachel Reeves' proposed cuts to the nature-friendly farming budget at the Spending Review could diminish farmers' confidence in Government and Defra

clock 02 June 2025 • 3 min read
In your field – James and Isobel Wright: "For the first time since moving here, the grazing is starting to look how we want"

Farm Life

In your field – James and Isobel Wright: "For the first time since moving here, the grazing is starting to look how we want"

James and Isobel have three young children and recently bought their first farm, running beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager

clock 02 June 2025 • 2 min read
In your field – Dan Jones: "It was a real joy to open up the farm and share a tradition that's so central to how we farm up here"

Livestock

In your field – Dan Jones: "It was a real joy to open up the farm and share a tradition that's so central to how we farm up here"

Dan farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

clock 01 June 2025 • 3 min read
Farming Matters: "Nature should be integrated into the farming system itself, not relegated to the edges"

Environment

Farming Matters: "Nature should be integrated into the farming system itself, not relegated to the edges"

Danielle Dewe, chief executive of the Countryside Regeneration Trust (CRT), writes about the importance of nature-friendly farming and the work of the CRT

clock 31 May 2025 • 3 min read