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Opinion and blogs

Young Farmer Focus - Rachel Burke: "YFC provides an essential link between urban and rural life"

Young Farmer Focus - Rachel Burke: "YFC provides an essential link between urban and rural life"

Rachel Burke, 21, is a sheep farmer from Alyth in Scotland, whose family also runs Pentland Livestock in Kirriemuir. She writes about the importance of YFC, studying at Harper Adams University, and her hopes for the future

Young Farmer Focus
Chris Brayford
clock 05 March 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

Rupert Lowe: "We need to overhaul the entire approach to British farming"

clock 04 March 2025 • 2 min read
Dairy

Hayley Campbell-Gibbons: "RABDF is a sleeping giant, and I'm here to wake it up"

clock 04 March 2025 • 5 min read
Mental Health

McCain Foods GB's James Young - "Farmer confidence is at an all-time low... the wider food sector has a responsibility to step up and support them"

clock 03 March 2025 • 3 min read
In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Farming has some of the best characters around... a community connected by a love of what they do"

clock 02 March 2025 • 3 min read
Dairy

Roger Evans: "This is a technical term often used by dairy farmers"

clock 01 March 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

Wendy Chamberlain: "It feels like the odds are stacked against farmers at the moment"

clock 01 March 2025 • 4 min read
OPINION: "Íæż½ã½ã are not making anywhere near enough to begin paying IHT, even over 10 years"

Politics

OPINION: "Íæż½ã½ã are not making anywhere near enough to begin paying IHT, even over 10 years"

Online editor Emily Ashworth talks about the consumer perception of farming regarding the Inheritance Tax discussion

clock 28 February 2025 • 1 min read
Tim Farron: "I cannot remember a time when farmers were treated so badly by those in power"

Farm Business

Tim Farron: "I cannot remember a time when farmers were treated so badly by those in power"

Mr Farron, Liberal Democrats spokesperson for rural affairs, writes for Íæż½ã½ã on issues including withdrawing BPS, Inheritance Tax changes, Donald Trump, food security and backing British farmers

clock 28 February 2025 • 3 min read
From the editor: "In any other year, those announcements would have been met with applause. Instead, Mr Reed stood red-faced and on the wrong side of farmers' frustrations"

Politics

From the editor: "In any other year, those announcements would have been met with applause. Instead, Mr Reed stood red-faced and on the wrong side of farmers' frustrations"

This week from Íæż½ã½ã editor Olivia Midgley

clock 27 February 2025 • 3 min read