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Livestock specialist Ellie Layton shares her thoughts on why farmers should value livestock marts in a post-subsidy world.

Silas Hedley–Lawrence is a farmer, coach and consultant with a decade of hands-on experience in regenerative agriculture. With a background rooted in both commercial and direct selling models, he champions lean, profitable farming systems that increase biodiversity and soil health. Silas is an Integrity Soils trained agroecological coach from the Yellowstone 2024 cohort

Bad practices need to be called out in farming, but tarring all farms with the same brush is totally unacceptable

Everyone needs to eat so every needs farmers to feed them

Olivia Shave is the founder of farming education campaign Soil Ed, which aims to get sustainability, farming and food onto the national curriculum. Over the last two years, the campaign has gained cross-party support and multiple high-profile ambassadors

This week from the Farmers Guardian deputy editor Alex Black

Head of arable Ash Ellwood shares one of her key takeaway messages from the Cultivate rural leadership conference that took place on April 29

Farming 405 hectares (1,000 acres), a mix of tenanted and owned land at Gatcombe Farm, near Seaton, Devton, Robert Reed and his family milk 350 all-year-round calving Holstein cow via five robots and are achieving average yields of 12,000 litres

Farmers Guardian livestock editor Angela Calvert highlights the importance of livestock markets ahead of the launch of this year’s Mart’s The Heart Awards

Daniel Blacker is passionate about creating extra revenue streams for farmers, having helped work on his diversified family farm which now runs holiday cottages