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Opinion and blogs

Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham: "We need to operate as the profitable business we all really know that farms can be"

Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham: "We need to operate as the profitable business we all really know that farms can be"

Oh what a three months it's been; Inheritance Tax, BPS slashing, capital grants ‘paused', the removal of commercial vehicle status on double cab pick ups and let's not forget the Bovaer foray

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Claire Eastham
clock 25 January 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Safety

John Kushnick on Farm Safety: "Conducting thorough risk assessments is crucial to mitigating workplace hazards"

clock 25 January 2025 • 3 min read
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Dairy Talk - Glyn Lucas: "For me our national security and food security is one and the same"

clock 24 January 2025 • 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Harry Suckling: "We are united in the hope that APR will be reversed"

clock 24 January 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

From the editor: Industry now has mandate to force farm assurance reform

clock 23 January 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

Farming Matters: Hester van Hensbergen - "We need to recognise this broken food system, built for corporate benefit, impacts us all"

clock 23 January 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Business

Letters: Íæż½ã½ã an 'inconvenience to Labour' and the National Trust has 'lost its founding ethos'

clock 20 January 2025 • 4 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

clock 19 January 2025 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk: Ifan Roberts – "I realised how fortunate I am to have such a great support network"

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Dairy Talk: Ifan Roberts – "I realised how fortunate I am to have such a great support network"

As I look back, 2024 was a year of lots of change for me, my business and farming in general in more ways than one

clock 19 January 2025 • 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus - Harry Parsons: "For anyone thinking of studying at Harper Adams University, I would say go for it"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Harry Parsons: "For anyone thinking of studying at Harper Adams University, I would say go for it"

Harry Parsons, 22, is a rural business adviser at SRH Agribusiness. He is from Laxey on the Isle of Man.

clock 19 January 2025 • 2 min read