Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Agriconnect |
Founder(s) | Joseph Livesey |
Editor | Ben Briggs[1] |
News editor | Olivia Midgley[1] |
Staff writers | Alex Black (Head of business) Jenny Jefferies (Writer) |
Founded | 10 February 1844 |
Website | fginsight |
Farmers Guardian is a weekly newspaper aimed at the British farming industry. It provides comprehensive and topical news with Livestock, Arable and Machinery sections; as well as business information and latest market prices. It is sold nationally and is published each Friday. Based in Preston, Lancashire, it was for many years owned by United Business Media but it, and sister title Pulse, were sold to UK business-to-business publisher AgriBriefing in February 2012 in a deal worth £10 million.[2]
Related products in include: Dairy Farmer, Arable Farming and the website www.fginsight.com. The website was launched in February 2015, and includes sections on news, arable, livestock, and machinery.[3]