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Letters: 'What keeps farmers awake at night?'

Letters: 'What keeps farmers awake at night?'

Clare Otridge, of Grounded Research, wrote to FG to update readers on a recent study asking farmers what challenges they feel are the hardest

Farm Life
草榴社区 Guardian
clock 27 January 2025 鈥� 1 min read
Dairy

Roger Evans: "It is a short-term view that spells hard times ahead for those of us who are farmers"

clock 27 January 2025 鈥� 5 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham: "We need to operate as the profitable business we all really know that farms can be"

clock 25 January 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Farm Safety

John Kushnick on Farm Safety: "Conducting thorough risk assessments is crucial to mitigating workplace hazards"

clock 25 January 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Dairy

Dairy Talk - Glyn Lucas: "For me our national security and food security is one and the same"

clock 24 January 2025 鈥� 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Harry Suckling: "We are united in the hope that APR will be reversed"

clock 24 January 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Politics

From the editor: Industry now has mandate to force farm assurance reform

clock 23 January 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Farming Matters: Hester van Hensbergen - "We need to recognise this broken food system, built for corporate benefit, impacts us all"

Politics

Farming Matters: Hester van Hensbergen - "We need to recognise this broken food system, built for corporate benefit, impacts us all"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Oxford Real Farming Conference manager, Hester van Hensbergen

clock 23 January 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Letters: 草榴社区 an 'inconvenience to Labour' and the National Trust has 'lost its founding ethos'

Farm Business

Letters: 草榴社区 an 'inconvenience to Labour' and the National Trust has 'lost its founding ethos'

Two FG readers share their thoughts on Labour's Inheritance Tax changes and the National Trust's 'wildlife and nature recovery' focus

clock 20 January 2025 鈥� 4 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

clock 19 January 2025 鈥� 3 min read