Keeping an eye on the latest trends in the grain markets
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
This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Andrew Wilson, York, discusses the implications of restricting or banning glyphosate
NFU combinable crops chair Jamie Burrows has appealed to farmers to make their views heard
Grain and oilseed prices have come under pressure over the last two years, but there are some reasons to believe there will be a recovery over the next few years
Ben Brooke has always said he would return back to the family farm in Cambridgeshire. Now, he is running it alongside his father. Emily Ashworth finds out more
Most of the Farmers Guardian team headed to LAMMA Show 2026, hosting panels, talking to manufacturers and discussing the issues that are impacting the industry most
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
This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Brian Richardson, head of agriculture, Virgin Money