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In your field: Dan Hawes – "Everything has started to grow, the ground has finally dried out... Long may the sun continue"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes – "Everything has started to grow, the ground has finally dried out... Long may the sun continue"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent

clock 31 March 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: Alan Carter – "When you have been in a parlour since the pushchair, you can take all this for granted"

In your field

In your field: Alan Carter – "When you have been in a parlour since the pushchair, you can take all this for granted"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162-hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, supplying Saputo

clock 31 March 2025 • 3 min read
Latest milk prices for dairy farmers

Farm Business

Latest milk prices for dairy farmers

Ara holds April price while Freshways drops May price by 2ppl

clock 31 March 2025 • 25 min read
Beef special: Bi-cropping and protein crops prove cost effective for beef finisher

Livestock

Beef special: Bi-cropping and protein crops prove cost effective for beef finisher

Keen to rear his beef cattle on home-grown proteins, Lancashire farmer Luke Gardner has also thrown bi-cropping into the mix

clock 31 March 2025 • 9 min read
OPINION: "Is the Land Use Framework another threat to the viability of English farms?"

Politics

OPINION: "Is the Land Use Framework another threat to the viability of English farms?"

Laura Greenman, of HCR Law, said: "While the Framework focuses on planning, energy and infrastructure, little consideration has been given to food security"

clock 29 March 2025 • 2 min read
Biostimulant boost for cavity spot in carrots

Arable

Biostimulant boost for cavity spot in carrots

Trials conducted by Richard Allen Agriculture have identified a natural alternative to fungicides to prevent cavity spot in carrots

clock 28 March 2025 • 1 min read
Disease monitoring identifies brown rust and net blotch problems

Arable

Disease monitoring identifies brown rust and net blotch problems

Mixing modes of action and maintaining dose rates is key to protecting fungicide efficacy

clock 27 March 2025 • 3 min read
Farming Matters: "The 'family farm tax' conjures up some image of a bucolic rural idyll which is being destroyed"

Politics

Farming Matters: "The 'family farm tax' conjures up some image of a bucolic rural idyll which is being destroyed"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Andy Welford, a dairy farmer from Scaling, near Saltburn, offers his views on the Inheritance Tax fallout

clock 24 March 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Dan Jones - "What struck me most was Argentinian farmers' deep respect for nature"

In your field

In your field: Dan Jones - "What struck me most was Argentinian farmers' deep respect for nature"

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 23 March 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Labour's assault on rural communities makes it vital we have strong voices"

In your field

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Labour's assault on rural communities makes it vital we have strong voices"

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 23 March 2025 • 2 min read