Farmers Weekly 75th Anniversary

Celebrating 75 years of Farmers Weekly

2009 is Farmers Weekly's 75th anniversary. We're proud to have been at the heart of the farming industry since 1934 and now look forward to the next 75 years and beyond. This page brings together all the pieces we've run during the year connected with this monumental milestone

FW 75th Anniversary Stories

FW's Tim Relf welcomes you to our 75th Anniversary Coverage

Farming in the year 2084

Re: Farming in the year 2084
I would like to make one thing perfectly clear...... I DON"T start fights, i think...
10 Nov 2009
Re: Farming in the year 2084
hardup cowman:someone they've never met What do want? A date? ............I am free. ...
10 Nov 2009
Re: Farming in the year 2084
I just love the critiscism, Why else would I have written something so derisory? It was a...
10 Nov 2009
Re: Farming in the year 2084
motley: hardup cowman:am not fussed how the world feeds itself Nice, lovely fine human...
10 Nov 2009
Re: Farming in the year 2084
If I try to imagine the state of farming in the UK 75 years ago, the image I come up with is one of...
26 Oct 2009

Have you ever been in FW?

Re: Have you ever been in Farmers Weekly?
I have always been told that i look as if i have had a hard paper round, but not that hard, i was only 23 at the time!
16 Oct 2009
Re: Have you ever been in Farmers Weekly?
billybones:I was crouching! Oh dear. Sometimes they worked but on occasion they did rather look like someone was - how do I say this delicately - 'unburdening themselves' in the field...
16 Oct 2009
Re: Have you ever been in Farmers Weekly?
Is this the one, looks more of a cereal than vegetable
16 Oct 2009
Re: Have you ever been in Farmers Weekly?
I was crouching!
16 Oct 2009
Re: Have you ever been in Farmers Weekly?
At least you weren't made to crouch. We had a phase (which lasted several years) where if you grew something you were forced to crouch in it.
16 Oct 2009

Photos of a bygone era

Beet drilling demo

Men in Norfolk

What the Royal used to look like

Win a Land Rover

Celebrate Farmers Weekly's 75th birthday and the launch of Norbrook's Closamectin Pour On by entering a competition to win a Land Rover

Farming’s greatest

This landmark series saw us seek to establish, with readers help, “Farming’s Greatest” in six categories: Innovation, Figure, Machine, Decade, View and Cock-up. Here are some of the suggestions and debate the series sparked .

You can also see the shortlists in the different categories (please note, voting has now closed).

Find out who went on to win the competition.

75 Things you might not know about FW

From the number of photos in our picture galleries to our connection with the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral, click here for a slideshow of lesser-known facts about your favourite farming read.

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