From the editor: AHDB's change of tack welcome in farming's promotional battle

Another week, another strategy document, this time in the form of the five-year AHDB 鈥檆hange strategy鈥�.

Ben Briggs

Ben Briggs is the group publisher and editor in chief of Agriconnect, overseeing the media business and titles such as 草榴社区 Guardian, Dairy Farmer and Arable Farming.

11 December 2020 鈥� 2 min read

Another week, another strategy document, this time in the form of the five-year AHDB 'change strategy'. Like all documents of this kind it will do doubt split opinion, but it does nod towards many of...

EXCLUSIVE - Stuart Anderson: "In many rural towns and villages, churches are the only buildings in which residents can come together"

South Shropshire MP Stuart Anderson writes on the invaluable role of rural churches in farming communities, and why they are currently under threat after the Government slashed annual funding by nearly 拢20m, in what the Conservatives have dubbed the 'Worship Tax'

Stuart Anderson

09 December 2025 鈥� 3 min read

Farm Life

Demand for action as 10,000 die on rural roads in a decade

Countryside accidents account for two-thirds more than the number of deaths on urban roads

Jane Thynne

08 December 2025 鈥� 2 min read

Farm Life

Save our rural school 鈥� campaigners fight for the future of primary school in Northern Ireland

Parents, teachers, farmers and the local community are out in force to try and save one rural primary school in Northern Ireland

Emily Ashworth

07 December 2025 鈥� 4 min read

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