I’m Tim — a full-time British farmer. Tim Harfield is the name I write under. It’s a straightforward pen name: real farmer, real experience, real email inbox, but I’d rather keep my farm address and my family out of the search results. That’s all it is.
Why I write BritFarmers
After more than twenty years in commercial agriculture — primarily salad and vegetable production, with a mixed livestock side — I got frustrated with how much of the farming press is written for editors in London, not for the people actually on the ground. Generic advice columns. Grant guides out of date the week they’re published. Articles that mention DEFRA or AHDB without linking to the page that matters.
BritFarmers is the site I wish I’d had when I was starting out. Practical, short where it should be short, linked to the actual source document every time, and written by someone who knows what a £300 fertiliser bill feels like.
How I write articles
Every article on this site is human-written and reviewed before it goes live. I don’t fabricate anecdotes I haven’t lived, quote experts I haven’t read, or invent statistics that sound about right. If I can’t link a claim to a primary source — DEFRA, AHDB, NFU, gov.uk, the relevant scheme document or regulator — the claim doesn’t go in.
When something sits outside my direct experience — a regional nuance, a technical detail in a sector I don’t work in — I say so openly, and I try to find someone on the ground who does. Corrections are welcome; send them to hello@britfarmers.com and I’ll act on them.
What this site is (and isn’t)
BritFarmers is practical, not political. I care about whether you can get the SFI action done on time, whether a grant application has a hidden clause, whether a new avian flu housing order covers your postcode, whether a fertiliser price shift is worth reacting to this week or next. Scheme guidance and working farm economics, not op-eds.
It’s also a one-person operation. That means slow and considered rather than fast and opinionated. Two or three articles a day, maximum. Anything I’m not sure of, I say so.
Get in touch
- Editorial, corrections, story tips — hello@britfarmers.com
- Partnerships and advertising — partnership@britfarmers.com
- Privacy and data requests — privacy@britfarmers.com
- Legal — legal@britfarmers.com
I read everything that comes through. If your farm is dealing with something this site hasn’t covered — that’s genuinely the most useful feedback I get.
