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Opinion and blogs

Nigel Bennet: "The best way to fight foot-and-mouth disease is to stop it before it reaches your farm"

Nigel Bennet: "The best way to fight foot-and-mouth disease is to stop it before it reaches your farm"

Mr Bennet writes about the need for UK farmers to remain vigilant to the signs of animal diseases on-farm following a 鈥榮care鈥� at Exeter Livestock Centre over the last week.

Animal Health
Chris Brayford
clock 06 March 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Blogs

Letters: "The key to why we are still in milk is succession planning"

clock 05 March 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Blogs

Letters: "Many flock numbers are so small that the whole commons system is breaking down"

clock 05 March 2025 鈥� 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Rachel Burke: "YFC provides an essential link between urban and rural life"

clock 05 March 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Politics

Rupert Lowe: "We need to overhaul the entire approach to British farming"

clock 04 March 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Dairy

Hayley Campbell-Gibbons: "RABDF is a sleeping giant, and I'm here to wake it up"

clock 04 March 2025 鈥� 5 min read
Mental Health

McCain Foods GB's James Young - "Farmer confidence is at an all-time low... the wider food sector has a responsibility to step up and support them"

clock 03 March 2025 鈥� 3 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Farming has some of the best characters around... a community connected by a love of what they do"

In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Farming has some of the best characters around... a community connected by a love of what they do"

Amy works on her family鈥檚 tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

clock 02 March 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Roger Evans: "This is a technical term often used by dairy farmers"

Dairy

Roger Evans: "This is a technical term often used by dairy farmers"

This month, Roger Evans tells us about his recent health 'MOT' and an appointment at the hospital

clock 01 March 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Wendy Chamberlain: "It feels like the odds are stacked against farmers at the moment"

Politics

Wendy Chamberlain: "It feels like the odds are stacked against farmers at the moment"

North East Fife MP Wendy Chamberlain writes about the family farm tax, changes to Universal Credit, mental health in farming, Defra Secretary Steve Reed, NFU Scotland, tenant farmers and the cost pressures facing the sector

clock 01 March 2025 鈥� 4 min read