Eco Ewe founder Olivia Shave on taking food and farming education from LAMMA to Westminster – and turning conversation into consequence

Management group formed to deal with key financial issues

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Ex-pig farmer John Walmsley, Blackburn, warns that higher welfare laws could once again undercut British farmers if trade protections are not enforced

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Clare Otridge, farmer and director of Grounded Research

A new networking and education event, Women in Farming: Cultivating Your Future, has been launched by the King's Foundation

A 29 month old little girl drowned while playing in a shallow river - as her father tried to round up sheep in a neighbouring field

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Trevor Black, York, argues that Government and political policies are undermining British farming, food security and rural communities in favour of external interests

Average farmland values in England hold firm

Nicola is a third-generation farmer from Aberdeenshire. Alongside her dad, George, she farms 560 hectares (1,400 acres) with 240 Simmental cross suckler cows and 1,000 Scotch Mule ewes and a small acreage of spring barley, forage rape and neeps to feed the livestock. She is also known as @livestock_farmher on social media where she gives her view of farming life