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In Your Field: Emma Robinson - "Women are the backbone of many family farms and keep it all together"

In Your Field: Emma Robinson - "Women are the backbone of many family farms and keep it all together"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the RABI.

In your field
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clock 20 June 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: Cost of crime down, but impact must never be underestimated

clock 19 June 2025 • 2 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Edward Morello: "Educating the public about the important role farming plays in society has never been more important"

clock 19 June 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - John Milne: "British farming needs every tool in the box to face climate uncertainty"

clock 18 June 2025 • 3 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Megan Beswick: "The next generation are going to be the backbone of this fantastic industry"

clock 18 June 2025 • 2 min read
Farm Life

Letters: "Increasing the homegrown food supply should be a national security issue of the 'highest priority'"

clock 17 June 2025 • 1 min read
Environment

Alastair Leake: Cowslips secure reprieve in Spending Review

clock 16 June 2025 • 3 min read
Colin Smyth: "The failure to deliver has left Dumfries and Galloway, once again, Scotland's forgotten region"

Politics

Colin Smyth: "The failure to deliver has left Dumfries and Galloway, once again, Scotland's forgotten region"

Labour MSP Colin Smyth has written exclusively for Íæż½ã½ã on Scottish Government's decision not to proceed with Galloway and Ayrshire as the location for Scotland's third National Park

clock 16 June 2025 • 4 min read
Farming Matters: "You can try to expel nature with a pitchfork, but it will always return"

Environment

Farming Matters: "You can try to expel nature with a pitchfork, but it will always return"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Chris Clark, first generation Yorkshire upland farmer and author

clock 16 June 2025 • 4 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - "Huge respect to all those farming in remote areas and thank you for welcoming us soft mainlanders when we visit"

In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "Huge respect to all those farming in remote areas and thank you for welcoming us soft mainlanders when we visit"

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

clock 15 June 2025 • 3 min read