Hamish Evans, 25, a farmer and head grower at Middle Ground Growers, from Bath, Somerset.

After wet weather through March and April caused some significant delays to maincrop planting, Farmers Guardian catches up with two Hutchinsons agronomists to see what this means for agronomy over the coming weeks.

Matt Phelan is co-founder of The Happiness Index and author of Freedom to Be Happy, The business case for Happiness.

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 400-acre, 400-cow dairy unit, at Constantine, Cornwall, supplying Suputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana.

Where crops have been planted into cloddy seedbeds, slug risk will be high and potato producers are urged to protect against the pest as soon as tubers reach golf ball size.

And we are off: harvest 2023 has begun. Our first crop of babyleaf spinach left the farm last week and, given the weather, quality has been surprisingly good.

The long dry summer of 2022 is now a distant memory and Id say most would say weve probably had enough rain for the time being.

Matthew Ingram, 26, is from Tamworth, Staffordshire and a member of Coleshill YFC in Warwickshire.

Fundraising, auctioneering and farming Gaina Morgan talks to Glandon Lewis about his busy life and passion for the rural community.