Education

This week's podcast is all about education, and a special look at the Government's response to the petition to try and get farming into schools

In this View from the Classroom special, Zak Hamersley, 27, tells Farmers Guardian how he became a lecturer in agriculture at Moreton Morrell College and enjoys inspiring the next generation

Ms McMenemy writes about the importance of Young Farmers' Clubs and why young people play a vital role in farming

An update on the petition to 'embed food, farming, and sustainability education into the national curriculum' from founder Olivia Shave

Hartpury University student Amy Turner writes about how she got into farming and how her experiences have shaped her passions for the sector

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

24-year-old Exeter young farmer Elle Slade said it made sense to go into calf rearing due to the low acreage requirement. She said her new venture was her way of bringing something back to the family farm

Elle Slade has been encouraged to follow her own path on the family farm and has set up her own successful calf rearing business, while working part time at a nearby fattening unit

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on the top stories from this week, including the Chancellor being accused of using Ministers as 'human shields' over Inheritance Tax changes, farmers take fate into their own hands by abandoning their SFI applications early despite waiting for offers to be made by the Government, APHA appoints former police chief as new chief executive, and Baroness Minette Batters asked to lead a review into farm profitability. Next week the latest on Donald Trump's trade tariffs and the impact on agriculture, new details revealed for the next stage of Johne's disease plan, and a petition to get farming on the curriculum aims to get 100k signatures

Last year Farmers Guardian joined a petition to urge the Government to embed food, farming and sustainability onto the national curriculum. with over 10,000 signatures, Government must respond