The latest Dairy Antimicrobial Focus Report from Kingshay highlights further reductions in antimicrobial use on UK dairy farms

David Exwood, NFU deputy president speaks about mental health during Mind Your Head Week

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162-hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Every winter for the last five years, the ‘Talybont Floodees’ have planted trees alongside Welsh farmer Rhodri Lloyd-Williams

A farmer-focused Regen Academy was launched by LEAF at its annual conference last week

Tom Ashton was a founder member of both the British Blue Cattle Society and the Beltex Sheep Society

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Andrew Wilson, York, discusses the implications of restricting or banning glyphosate

Arla also drops conventional milk price for February by 1.75ppl to 33.98ppl

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as UK country manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm