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The Farmer

Perspectives on conservation, land management and investing in agriculture from farmers across the globe

Golden Oldie

Numbers, metrics, Ruby Tigers and the value of an oak tree

by Martin Hole | Jul 17, 2023

Originally published September 2021. Why preserving the irreplaceable benefits everyone and especially moths. The names of moths are a delicious smorgasbord of rich imagery. Our evenings are festooned by Dusky Footmen and Ruby Tigers, Death’s Head hawkmoths and even the Scarce Merveille du Jour....

The Farmer

Volatility to Explain High Historical Farmland Returns

by Forbes Elworthy | Aug 5, 2020

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 9th MAY 2018 Introduction – the danger of being a farmer at MBA school (or at a dinner party) MBA schools characterise farming as a commodity...

The Farmer

How we can protect our farmers and promote free trade

by Shanker Singham | Jul 26, 2020

There is a raging debate in the UK about whether and how UK farmers should be protected from foreign competition in the execution of its trade policy. It threatens to divide the...

The Farmer

What Farmers and Lapwings can teach business

by Martin Hole | Jul 9, 2020

The highest recorded age to which a Lapwing has lived is 24 years and 6 months, in Denmark, with the runner up, also a Dane, and “killed by man”, greater than 23 years and 7...

The Farmer

Lock Up musings from the Farm

by Nigel Wheeler | Jul 1, 2020

This dastardly 'Chinese Virus' has challenged us all. 'Lock down' (we used to call it 'Lock up' at school) creates new initiatives and priorities, passions, promises and...

The Farmer

The shepherd and the seven-ﬁgure road

by Martin Hole | Jun 2, 2020

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED SPRING 2019 I am going to have to repair the farm drive In the depth of winter we begin to organise summer farm maintenance. This year we plan...

The Farmer

What NZ farms can tell us about life after Brexit

by Forbes Elworthy | May 28, 2020

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED SPRING 2019 The subsidies disappeared all at once – but farming on the bottom of the world is more proﬁtable than ever The prospect of Britain’s...

The Farmer

Grave Times

by Nigel Wheeler | May 8, 2020

'Let's talk of graves' Richard Il iii ii. This is a property magazine and what more valuable, long lasting piece of real estate can be bought than a burial plot. Once...