Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

As part of Farmers Guardian’s series of how-to guides, we look at how overseeding can improve swards which have suffered from drought this summer.

The 2025 New Entrant (Against the Odds) finalists have been selected because they have successfully started their own farming enterprise within the last five years

Jamie’s Farm is showing how a profitable livestock business can also have a strong social purpose and be a model for regenerative farming

A round up of this week's auction mart sales including from Carlisle, Ballymena, Exeter and Sennybridge

North Country Cheviot Hill rams at Lockerbie sold to £18,000 twice, with five selling for five figure sums

Farmers' Weather this week by Dr Simon Keeling

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Indra Thillainathan, team lead - Land, Agriculture and Nature at the CCC

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson