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Opinion and blogs

From the lambing shed: Hannah Murrell - "It's not unusual for me to dream about sheep at night"

From the lambing shed: Hannah Murrell - "It's not unusual for me to dream about sheep at night"

Norfolk shepherdess Hannah Murrell is gearing up for a very busy lambing season at Gawdy Hall Estate, in Harleston

Sheep
Hannah Murrell
clock 25 February 2025 • 4 min read
Mental Health

Professor David Rose: "Government, including Defra, must recognise that their language and actions can be one of the major causes of poor farmer wellbeing"

clock 25 February 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Letters: "Surely a better option would be to scrap APR altogether, but with exemptions"

clock 25 February 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

Labour MP Steve Witherden on IHT: "I asked the Treasury to raise the threshold to target the tax-dodging multinationals... there is still time for this to be put right"

clock 24 February 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "February is an important month for us in the strawberry propagation world"

clock 23 February 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

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"

clock 22 February 2025 • 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 • 3 min read
OPINION: "How long can beef prices keep moving up?"

Beef

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

Íæż½ã½ã's head of livestock sales and markets Angela Calvert reflects on the sustained upward trend in beef prices

clock 21 February 2025 • 1 min read
The Íæż½ã½ã Podcast: Scotland's new Tenant Farming Commissioner calls for more face-to-face conversations between tenants and landlords

Podcasts

The Íæż½ã½ã Podcast: Scotland's new Tenant Farming Commissioner calls for more face-to-face conversations between tenants and landlords

Rob Black said often tenants make assumptions of their landlords and vice versa. He said there was a need for more ‘genuine conversations’ encouraging landlords and tenants to ‘sit down and talk to each other’

clock 21 February 2025 • 1 min read
From the editor: The Government will not back down, but neither will farmers

Politics

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

This week from Íæż½ã½ã editor Olivia Midgley

clock 20 February 2025 • 2 min read