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Ben Eagle is the Acting Editor of Eat Farm Now.

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Harvest 2023 – Oil Seed Rape

Earlier this year many fields across the UK and Europe turned yellow as oil seed rape came into flower. July…

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Harvest 2023 – All About Wheat

Wheat is the most widely cultivated cereal crop in the world, making up around 25% of the total arable area….

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Farming is everybody’s bread and butter

Food produced in Britain is of an incredibly high standard and farmers across Britain are now experiencing their full peak…

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Harvest 2023 – All About Barley

For many farmers in the UK harvest is now in full swing and one of the first crops to be…

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Why do farmers need to shear sheep?

Can you imagine wearing a woolly fleece all year round? How hot would that be! Well, if it wasn’t for…

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What food is in season in the UK in June?

Each month we will profile the foods that are seasonal in the UK and we are kick starting with beautiful…

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Was Rishi Sunak’s Food Summit a Success?

There is clear disagreement as to whether or not Rishi Sunak’s ‘Farm to Fork’ summit held yesterday was a success….

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Why has Rishi Sunak called a Food Summit?

Today, the very first Farm to Fork Summit has taken place in Downing Street, hosted by the Prime Minister, Rishi…

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What is the yellow flower in farmers’ fields?

At this time of year large areas of the British countryside turn yellow as a plant that many farmers include…

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#Shelfgate Update: What’s happened this week in the food shortages story?

By Ben Eagle; Acting Editor, Eat Farm Now. With news breaking yesterday of a supermarket being embroiled in a major…

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Why are the supermarket shelves empty? (PART 2)

by Ben Eagle; Acting Editor, Eat Farm Now With the empty shelves in supermarkets story continuing to make headlines and…

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Why are the supermarket shelves empty? (PART 1)

by Ben Eagle (Acting Editor, Eat Farm Now) Newspaper headlines have been increasingly panicked in recent days regarding food shortages…

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‘The Pig Farmer’

Last year, film maker Christopher Baker made a series of films looking at the relationships between farmers and their animals….

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Team Wales Races to Success in Run 1000

Earlier this month dozens of runners from across England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and New Zealand took part in #Run1000, raising…

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Home is Where the Herd Is

Film maker and photographer Chris Baker made this film, called ‘The Dairy Farmer’, last year in Dorset. It features dairy…