Our Farming People: Your winning charity calendar photos
These are the 12 shots that have been selected to appear in the 2025 Farmers Weekly, Rabi and Rsabi charity calendar.
To help us put the calendar together, we asked for your photos of farming people through the seasons.
We received hundreds of fantastic shots – each documenting the hard work and dedication of farmers in winter, spring, summer and autumn, whether in the tractor cab, calving pen or local show.
See also: See all the winning and highly commended entries
Where to buy the calendar
Copies of the calendar can be ordered online in wall or desk versions at rabi.org.uk/shop for £10 each plus p&p. All proceeds will go to Rabi and Rsabi.
Thank you to everybody who took the time to capture the moment – from epic work under stunning harvest skies to feeding sheep in the chilling snow – and send it to us.
A panel of judges from Farmers Weekly, Rabi and Rsabi hand-picked the images on these pages to represent the individual months of the year. In addition, a selection of highly commended photographs will appear on the final page of the calendar.
As well as appearing in the calendar, the winning and highly commended entries will all feature in an exhibition to be held in the Houses of Parliament later this year, showcasing the challenges and triumphs of farming to a wider audience.
In this, Farmers Weekly’s 90th year, your photos help us celebrate the people who are the backbone of UK agriculture, while also directly supporting the vital work of Rabi and Rsabi in the rural and farming communities through sales of the calendar.
Look out for other 90th birthday initiatives in conjunction with Rabi and Rsabi in the coming months.
You can see all of the entries on the Our Farming People gallery.
The winners
1
The winner of winners – which graces the front cover of the calendar – is this shot of shepherdess Rebecca Bruce with a handful of lambs.
The photo was taken by her mother, Eleanor Mitchell, in Dunkeld, Perthshire.
© Eleanor Mitchell
2
Guto Jones captured Llion Harries (front) and Siôn Thomas shearing his ewes at Blaen Bowy, Carmarthenshire.
Guto says he loves how the sunbeams through the shed skylight replicate the light in an artist’s studio.
© Guto Jones
3
Alex James took this from inside the beaters’ trailer on a shoot day in Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Fern the dog is pictured with a couple of beaters who were invited to shoot that day by way of thanks for their help during the season.
© Alexandria James
4
This is Rach Donger’s partner Phil Hurt, known as “Big Phil”, in his John Deere tractor pulling a Kockerling cultivator.
As soon as she saw him kicking up the dust, Rach grabbed her camera and caught this great shot.
© Rach Donger
5
Elizabeth Cliff submitted this shot of husband Jonathan and son George checking the growth of GS4 mix crop at Crowlands Farm, Lincs.
© Elizabeth Cliff
6
Here’s “a very able 90-year-old doing the rounds”, says Chris Roberts, who snapped his grandad, Robert, walking up the feed barrier at Foxhall Farm, Shropshire.
“The farm has been in the family for several generations and Grandad still checks on us!” says Chris.
© Chris Roberts
7
University student Molly McCabe worked at High Chimney Farm in Kent for a couple of summers. If it’s a nice evening, she loves to get a snap, especially when the sky is looking so dramatic.
© Molly McCabe
8
Richard Crocker took this photo of daughter Annie, who was putting in 12-hour days helping deliver the farm’s first ever litter of Sandy and Blacks at Crows Nest Farm, Dartmoor.
© Richard Crocker
9
Alan Gadd (left), Dan Kavanagh, Martin Smith and Phil Bates (right) of Wharf Farm herd cows across the A-road at New Bridge, West Sussex. Harriet Mitchell captured the moment.
© Harriet Mitchell
10
Alison Stodart, who likes to document life at Mill of Inverarity Farm, Angus, won a spot in the calendar with this atmospheric photo of husband Rob feeding the lambs.
© Alison Stodart
11
This is Emma Deeley Cook’s son George, 22, concentrating hard on his first day learning the skill of hedge laying at the family’s arable holding in Oxfordshire.
© Emma Deeley Cook
12
Cumbria farm vet Bethany Collins captured her boyfriend Tony Booth, gathering sheep on the fell at Langdale Pike.
© Bethany Collins