In your field: Kate Beavan - 'There is a way forward, but we all need to be part of the discussions'

Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122 hectares (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on-site from their orchards. She is a mum of two, runs Kate’s Country School on-farm and is the woodland creation officer for Stump Up For Trees.

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In your field - James Robinson: "The best thing to happen this month was a letter to confirm we have returned to an 'officially tuberculosis free status'"

James farms Dairy Shorthorns east of Kendal, Cumbria, with his parents Kathleen and Henry, wife Michelle and sons Robert and Chris. The fifth generation to farm at Strickley, he is also vice-chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network

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In your field - Emma Robinson: "He had been a farmer all his life and loved it and was still driving the combine into his late 80s"

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

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In your field - Helen Stanier: "We could smell the smoke from the fires on Langdale Moor and our thoughts are with all the farmers and families affected"

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

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In your field - James Robinson: "The best thing to happen this month was a letter to confirm we have returned to an 'officially tuberculosis free status'"

In your field - Emma Robinson: "He had been a farmer all his life and loved it and was still driving the combine into his late 80s"

In your field - Helen Stanier: "We could smell the smoke from the fires on Langdale Moor and our thoughts are with all the farmers and families affected"