About BritFarmers — Not a trade magazine. Not a lobby sheet. One farmer writing the paper he wished existed — the one that reads the handbooks for you and shows its working.

Four principles — what you get and don’t

1. Primary sources, always Every number, rate, and date on this site is linked to the handbook, portal, or release it came from. If I can’t link it, it doesn’t run.
2. Written by someone on the land I farm the subject I write about. That means I make the same eligibility mistakes you do — and write up the fix after I’ve made it.
3. No sponsors, no PR inbox BritFarmers takes no advertising, no sponsorship, no affiliate commission on grants. Subscribers pay nothing. I keep the farm going.
4. Dated and checked Every piece carries a date. Every guide carries a last-checked-against-handbook date. When Defra moves, the page updates or it gets pulled.

How a piece gets made

1. Read the handbook or release first — in full.
2. Walk the actual field, call the neighbour, or test the equipment.
3. Write the piece with every source linked inline.
4. Sit on it overnight. Re-read. Kill the slop.
5. Publish with a last-checked date. Update when Defra updates.

What you won’t find

• Press-release repackaging
• Speculative market calls — AHDB releases only
• Sponsored posts dressed as editorial
• “10 best tractors” listicles
• Anything I haven’t checked against the primary source

How those principles work in practice — corrections, sourcing, updates — is set out in full on the editorial standards page.

Written & edited by

Tim Harfield — 21 years growing salad and veg in Suffolk, the last two years adding arable. One laptop, one broadband line, one decent chair in the farm office.

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Primary source: Defra.