BritFarmers is a small, independent publication. One person writes it, so there is nowhere to hide when something is wrong. These are the rules the site is run by.
How we source
Every factual claim on this site links to a primary source: DEFRA, the Rural Payments Agency, AHDB, the NFU, or gov.uk. If a claim cannot be pinned to one of those, it either gets labelled clearly as opinion or it does not go in. Scheme rules, payment rates and deadlines are checked against the official page on the day of writing, and the date of the last check is shown wherever it matters.
Market figures come from AHDB published datasets. We do not quote prices from memory, and neither should you.
Who writes this
Everything on BritFarmers carries the byline Tim Harfield and is written from a working farm in Suffolk. Guides are grounded in jobs actually done here — when a piece covers something outside first-hand experience, it says so and leans harder on the sources. More on the About page.
Corrections
Mistakes get fixed in the open. If you spot an error, use the contact page and it will be corrected in place with a dated note — not quietly edited. The correction stays on the page for as long as the page exists.
Independence
No sponsored rankings. No advertorial dressed up as advice. If a page ever carries a paid placement or an affiliate link, it will be labelled on that page, plainly. Nobody pays to be recommended on BritFarmers.
How this site is produced
Drafting tools, including AI ones, are used for research and first drafts — the same way most small publishers now work. Every published word is edited, checked against the sources above, and signed off by a person who farms for a living. If a piece is not useful to a working farmer, it does not get published, however it was drafted.
Last reviewed: 4 July 2026