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OPINION: Farm profitability – While the Government pats itself on the back, confidence plummets

OPINION: Farm profitability – While the Government pats itself on the back, confidence plummets

Head of news and business Alex Black discusses the latest total income from farming figures

Politics
Alex Black
Alex Black
clock 13 June 2025 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: Spending Review not as bad as feared, but where will the money be spent?

clock 12 June 2025 • 2 min read
Beef

Letters: "I don't get the problem – if we are happy to export beef, we have to also be happy to import it"

clock 12 June 2025 • 1 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus – Maria Warne-Elston: "I have watched three generations of women before me become unsung heroes"

clock 11 June 2025 • 3 min read
Farm Life

Letters: "It is time that farmers and graziers should take precedence [in the uplands]"

clock 10 June 2025 • 2 min read
Dairy

Hugh Pocock: "These technologies promise a more efficient, sustainable and prosperous future in farming"

clock 10 June 2025 • 5 min read
Politics

The Spending Review: Will it be well spent?

clock 09 June 2025 • 5 min read
In Your Field – Dan Hawes: "Our flexible solar panel strips create more energy than we can use"

Farm Life

In Your Field – Dan Hawes: "Our flexible solar panel strips create more energy than we can use"

Dan Hawes produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, Kent. The arable side of the business includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

clock 09 June 2025 • 3 min read
In Your Field – Alan Carter: "I don't pretend to know everything about cows, but I know the type I would like to go through a parlour"

Farm Life

In Your Field – Alan Carter: "I don't pretend to know everything about cows, but I know the type I would like to go through a parlour"

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 08 June 2025 • 3 min read
Farming Matters – "Meat is not the enemy – stop blaming the cow and start fixing the system"

Livestock

Farming Matters – "Meat is not the enemy – stop blaming the cow and start fixing the system"

By Dr Jason Aldiss, executive director of AIMS, president of the Union of European Veterinary Hygienists and Master of the York Guild of Butchers writes about the misinformation surrounding meat production and climate change

clock 07 June 2025 • 3 min read