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OPINION: "Talk of foot-and-mouth will have sent shivers down the spine"

OPINION: "Talk of foot-and-mouth will have sent shivers down the spine"

Íæż½ã½ã livestock editor Katie Jones discusses the importance of thorough border controls to ensure disease is not imported into the UK

Blogs
Katie Jones
clock 17 January 2025 • 1 min read
Farm Business

Emma Mosey: How farm shops and farmers' markets can mitigate the challenges of the Budget

clock 15 January 2025 • 2 min read
Blogs

Emma Gray's Farming Life: "A farm sale can make for mixed feelings"

clock 15 January 2025 • 3 min read
Blogs

James Robinson on OFRC: "ORFC makes you a better person. It opens your mind; it grows connection."

clock 14 January 2025 • 4 min read
Blogs

Patrick Holden: "Support cannot simply be for activities around the edges of farmland"

clock 13 January 2025 • 1 min read
Farm Life

In your field: Dan Jones - "More invertebrates on the Great Orme than any other surveyed place in Wales"

clock 12 January 2025 • 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Jessica Stewart: "Coming together shows a stand of unity"

clock 11 January 2025 • 2 min read
Farming matters: Harry Bowell - "Hill farmers are ideally placed to deliver gains for nature and deserve to be rewarded"

Farm Life

Farming matters: Harry Bowell - "Hill farmers are ideally placed to deliver gains for nature and deserve to be rewarded"

Harry Bowell is Director of Land and Nature at the National Trust

clock 11 January 2025 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk - Robert Reed: "I hope 2025 is the year that our Government realises that they need a farmer every single day to live and eat"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Robert Reed: "I hope 2025 is the year that our Government realises that they need a farmer every single day to live and eat"

As with all farmers, the weather is one of our biggest influences on nearly everything we do

clock 11 January 2025 • 4 min read
In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "UK teams develop the technology, it is a great British agri-tech export story"

Farm Life

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "UK teams develop the technology, it is a great British agri-tech export story"

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run 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. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm

clock 10 January 2025 • 2 min read