
Emily Ashworth
Online Editor at Farmers Guardian
Online Editor at Guild of Food Writers
Mama 💫 Online Editor @FarmersGuardian + @guildfoodwriter ✌🏻🥘🥐☕️🗺📸 History girl: My book The Land Army’s Lost Women is out now👇🏻
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11 hours ago |
farmersguardian.com | Emily Ashworth
Former England rugby star Tom Youngs on settling back into life on the family farm Tom Youngs now farms in partnership with his cousin, George, and shares his passion for championing the agricultural industry, saying 'farmers just want to produce good food, look after the land, and look after wildlife' 24 April 2025 • 11 min read
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1 day ago |
farmersguardian.com | Emily Ashworth
Run by Ladies in Beef and AHDB, this week (April 23 - April 30) will help to shine a spotlight on the farmers producing beef for the nation. This year's campaign is farmer-led, meaning farmers will...
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2 weeks ago |
farmersguardian.com | Emily Ashworth
The joint petition, which was started by sheep farmer and former teacher Olivia Shave, is urging the Government to embed food, farming and sustainability onto the national curriculum. The petition has now gained over 11,700 signatures meaning it will get a response from Government. The goal, however, is 100,000. At this point, the petition will get debated in Parliament.
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2 weeks ago |
farmersguardian.com | Emily Ashworth
This blog highlights farmers' thoughts and experiences during lambing 2025. In this video blog, teacher and farmer Shane Auckland reflects on lambing time This lambing took place at Oaklands college in St Albans Hertfordshire where I farm.
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2 weeks ago |
farmersguardian.com | Emily Ashworth
The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said funds raised from Inheritance Tax would be used to fund things like the NHS, but farmers are a key part of fixing the national health crises In this podcast, online editor Emily Ashworth speaks to one farm who are hoping to provide a local hospital with their sustainability produced beef, and Frank Fiore, a NHS catering manager who has started to source produce for his patients direct from farms.
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RT @FarmersGuardian: 🗣️ “What’s not acceptable is that decent, honest, hardworking families can’t carry on producing food…” ❌🌽 Fifth-gene…

What are other farmers doing who didn’t manage to get their application in? What’s next for you? Are you reassessing how you farm etc? Please let me know 👇🏻

We have given up waiting for our SFI agreement to come through, and have started sowing wheat in areas we planned to leave as habitat. In my time on the farm cash flow has never been tighter, so we can’t risk leaving fields bare for a scheme we may not be accepted into. https://t.co/PhwdJaZSXY

GET FARMING INTO SCHOOLS! We need at least 10k to get a response from Government. The time is now; the time to help future generations understand the impact of food choices and how it impacts the environment. Huge well done to @ecoewe for getting this far! https://t.co/utiH4IyiSn