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In your field - Dan Hawes: "It's a fine balance between being too dry and stressing the plant, and being too wet, risking poor growing conditions"

In your field - Dan Hawes: "It's a fine balance between being too dry and stressing the plant, and being too wet, risking poor growing conditions"

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

In your field
Dan Hawes
clock 17 August 2025 鈥� 3 min read
In your field

In your field - Alan Carter: "I am pleased to say that we had a clear TB test. I can't remember the last time that happened"

clock 16 August 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: Industry consultation must not be an afterthought

clock 15 August 2025 鈥� 2 min read
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OPINION: #farm24 special - "Farming is in an era of risk and change, but what cannot be taken away from us is pride"

clock 15 August 2025 鈥� 1 min read
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Farming Matters - Phil Stocker: "If farming is to be viable and not subsidised, then people will have to pay more for their food"

clock 14 August 2025 鈥� 4 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Lily Brown: "Our country would grind to a halt without farmers"

clock 13 August 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Bridget Whell on bovine TB: "We have been stuck in this test and cull cycle of cattle for way too long"

clock 12 August 2025 鈥� 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Martin Lines: "We cannot keep demanding more food at lower prices and then acting surprised when pollution increases"

Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Martin Lines: "We cannot keep demanding more food at lower prices and then acting surprised when pollution increases"

The Nature Friendly Farming Network chief executive has written on the need to improve water quality in agriculture and why a food system which values environmental outcomes as much as yield is vitally important moving forward

clock 11 August 2025 鈥� 4 min read
In your field - Dan Jones: "I listened with growing unease to comments made by Eluned Morgan in the Senedd"

In your field

In your field - Dan Jones: "I listened with growing unease to comments made by Eluned Morgan in the Senedd"

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

clock 10 August 2025 鈥� 3 min read
In your field - James Wright: "Our eldest, aged four, even tried working Tess, our dog. I might have to start planning my retirement"

In your field

In your field - James Wright: "Our eldest, aged four, even tried working Tess, our dog. I might have to start planning my retirement"

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 UK country manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm

clock 09 August 2025 鈥� 2 min read