Industry
Countryside Stewardship 2026: a working farmer’s guide
What is actually running in Countryside Stewardship 2026: Higher Tier, the two Capital Grants routes, CSMT extensions and what stacks with SFI.
From the fields and beyond
The journal.
Stories, practical guides and a working farmer’s view.
Arable
UK Soil Health 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide
Where UK soil health sits in 2026 — Defra indicators, SFI soil actions, RB209, peat, organic matter, and the testing a working farm actually does.
Industry
UK Farm Diversification 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide
What UK farm diversification looks like in 2026 — shops, glamping, events, contracting, energy. Honest economics from a working Suffolk holding.
Industry
UK Carbon Farming and Net Zero 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide
UK Carbon Farming — Last updated: May 2026. This guide pulls together how the UK’s net-zero framework actually lands on a working farm in 2026: the statutory…
Arable
UK Glasshouse and Polytunnel Production 2026: A Working Grower’s Guide
UK glasshouse and polytunnel production in 2026 — heated glass economics, lighting, CO2, hydroponics, IPM, water and labour from a working grower.
Arable
UK Farm Prices and Agricultural Markets: A Working Farmer’s Guide to Reading the Trade in 2026
This guide explains where UK farm prices come from in 2026, who actually publishes them, how to read the daily and weekly numbers across cereals, beef, s...
Industry
Clarkson expands Diddly Squat brand with major Ocado partnership
Ocado Partnership — Tim’s take: There’s a peculiar irony in watching a man who once drove tractors on television for entertainment now ship his farm p...
Arable
UK Crop Protection 2026: A Working Grower’s IPM Guide
UK crop protection in 2026: HSE rules, residue specs, withdrawn actives, IPM in practice. From a working salad and veg grower in Suffolk.
Industry
UK Farm Succession Planning 2026: Beyond the Inheritance Tax Bill
Farm succession beyond the inheritance tax bill — partnerships, wills, family meetings, lifetime gifting, and the lifestyle reckoning.
Industry
UK Farm Renewable Energy 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide to Solar, Wind, AD and Biomass
This guide covers the four big farm-scale renewables (solar PV, wind, anaerobic digestion and biomass), the heat pump add-on, the grid-connection.
Arable
UK Precision Agriculture 2026: A Working Farmer’s Guide for Salad/Veg and Small Arable
What earns its keep on a sub-500-acre holding: precision kit for salad/veg and small arable, with SFI 2026, Capital Grants and FETF mapped against it.
Grants
SFI 2026 (SFI26): A Working Farmer’s Guide to Payment Rates, the 71 Actions and the September Window
SFI 2026 actions, payment rates and the Window 2 opening Defra expects from 22 September, in plain English from a working Suffolk farmer.
