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Opinion and blogs

In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a parish councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

In your field
草榴社区 Guardian
clock 22 February 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Mental Health

Edward Morello - Lib Dems MP: "The Farming Resilience Fund is still needed and the decision to end it will have foreseeable consequences"

clock 21 February 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Beef

OPINION: "How long can beef prices keep moving up?"

clock 21 February 2025 鈥� 1 min read
Podcasts

The 草榴社区 Guardian Podcast: Scotland's new Tenant Farming Commissioner calls for more face-to-face conversations between tenants and landlords

clock 21 February 2025 鈥� 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: The Government will not back down, but neither will farmers

clock 20 February 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Politics

OPINION: What UK farmers need to prepare for when it comes to Inheritance Tax changes

clock 19 February 2025 鈥� 6 min read
Farm Business

Ben Taylor - Roythornes Solicitors: "The yield from this [IHT] measure is not likely to reach a steady state for at least 20 years"

clock 19 February 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Crop Walk with Simon Nelson: Winter crops show plenty of potential

Arable

Crop Walk with Simon Nelson: Winter crops show plenty of potential

Simon Nelson advises farmers on a wide range of arable and forage crops across Cumbria, north Lancashire and into south west Scotland

clock 19 February 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Letters: "People crossed the common to find wives mostly, and went back to their roots to be buried"

Blogs

Letters: "People crossed the common to find wives mostly, and went back to their roots to be buried"

Phillip Morgan, from Powys, reflects on the value of common land and grazing rights over his lifetime

clock 18 February 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Jon Williams - BASF Agricultural Solutions: "The first ask of the Defra Secretary at the NFU Conference should be, what does UK food security mean?"

Farm Business

Jon Williams - BASF Agricultural Solutions: "The first ask of the Defra Secretary at the NFU Conference should be, what does UK food security mean?"

Mr Williams is public and governmental affairs manager at BASF. He writes about the state of British agriculture, food security, land management and questions Defra Secretary Steve Reed needs to answer at NFU Conference

clock 17 February 2025 鈥� 3 min read