Farming on the edge

Joe Stanley reflects on the farm’s autumnal jobs, including laying new field drainage

Many farmers are battling for their future in the face of financial crises and the climate emergency. We ask: who are the pioneers leading the charge for change and what is at stake for the rest of us?

As an island nation, the UK has a long and proud fishing history, a cultural identity that caused waves in the 2016 campaign to leave the EU. For a few days in May 2025 that passion resurfaced, when t

Campaigners fear that Labour’s agricultural legislation spells the ...

Amid a trend for public institutions to serve vegan-only menus, Michael Barker asks whether the push is actually damaging Britain’s national food security and also its sustainability credentials

The fields at sleight farm, near Bath, are not much to look at. One is bare earth and deeply rutted, reminiscent of land that has been subjected to the rootling behaviour of wild boar. “This,” says en