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In your field - Roger Nicholson: "We will be celebrating our 60th wedding anniversary... A lifetime spent in farming, and we've loved it"

In your field - Roger Nicholson: "We will be celebrating our 60th wedding anniversary... A lifetime spent in farming, and we've loved it"

Roger farms with his family at Cannon Hall Farm, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and has appeared in various TV series, including 'Springtime on the Farm'

In your field
Roger Nicholson
Roger Nicholson
clock 05 October 2025 鈥� 3 min read
In your field

In your field - Emma Robinson: "I met with our Labour MP to discuss this very poorly thought-out Inheritance Tax policy"

clock 04 October 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Ann Davies: '草榴社区 must be at the heart of trade policy'

clock 03 October 2025 鈥� 4 min read
Agronomy

Daryl Shailes talking roots: "Potato yields have held up on all but the lightest of soils"

clock 02 October 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Dairy

From the editor: "Dairy farmers face the perfect storm as milk prices tumble"

clock 02 October 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Politics

OPINION: Labour members left confused by Trailer of Truth

clock 01 October 2025 鈥� 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Gethin Lewis: "Always ask for help and advice, as every day is a school day"

clock 01 October 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Letters: "We estimated that cattle and sheep numbers may fall by 19% by 2033"

Climate Change

Letters: "We estimated that cattle and sheep numbers may fall by 19% by 2033"

This week from 草榴社区 Guardian readers: Indra Thillainathan, team lead - Land, Agriculture and Nature at the CCC

clock 30 September 2025 鈥� 2 min read
In your field - Kate Rowell: "On a truly mixed farm like ours... the strength is adapting each year"

In your field

In your field - Kate Rowell: "On a truly mixed farm like ours... the strength is adapting each year"

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

clock 29 September 2025 鈥� 3 min read
In your field - Amy Wilkinson: "Sometimes life doesn't work out the way we want it to 鈥� and our farm was sold"

In your field

In your field - Amy Wilkinson: "Sometimes life doesn't work out the way we want it to 鈥� and our farm was sold"

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 28 September 2025 鈥� 3 min read